AI-based real-time prediction engine apparatuses, methods and systems

ABSTRACT

The AI-Based Real-Time Prediction Engine Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“AIRTPE”) transforms machine learning training input, order placement input inputs via AIRTPE components into machine learning training output, order placement output, information leakage alert outputs. An order placement datastructure associated with a security identifier is obtained. An order placement allocation for the security identifier is determined. An order placement request datastructure for a first order is sent to a server associated with a first venue. A set of trade tick data messages associated with the first venue is obtained. A set of inferred labels is determined for each obtained trade tick data message using a real-time prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique. The inferred labels of a selected inferred label type are grouped into buckets. When it is determined that the grouped inferred labels correspond to execution data generated by the first order, an information leakage alert is generated.

PRIORITY CLAIM

Applicant hereby claims benefit to priority under 35 USC § 119 as anon-provisional conversion of: US provisional patent application Ser.No. 62/927,085, filed Oct. 28, 2019, entitled “AI-Based Real-TimePrediction Engine Apparatus, Methods and Systems”.

The entire contents of the aforementioned applications are hereinexpressly incorporated by reference.

This application for letters patent disclosure document describesinventive aspects that include various novel innovations (hereinafter“disclosure”) and contains material that is subject to copyright, maskwork, and/or other intellectual property protection. The respectiveowners of such intellectual property have no objection to the facsimilereproduction of the disclosure by anyone as it appears in publishedPatent Office file/records, but otherwise reserve all rights.

FIELD

The present innovations generally address machine learning, and moreparticularly, include AI-Based Real-Time Prediction Engine Apparatuses,Methods and Systems.

However, in order to develop a reader's understanding of theinnovations, disclosures have been compiled into a single description toillustrate and clarify how aspects of these innovations operateindependently, interoperate as between individual innovations, and/orcooperate collectively. The application goes on to further describe theinterrelations and synergies as between the various innovations; all ofwhich is to further compliance with 35 U.S.C. § 112.

BACKGROUND

People own all types of assets, some of which are secured instruments tounderlying assets. People have used exchanges to facilitate trading andselling of such assets. Computer information systems, such as NAICO-NET,Trade*Plus and E*Trade allowed owners to trade securities assetselectronically.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Appendices and/or drawings illustrating various, non-limiting, example,innovative aspects of the AI-Based Real-Time Prediction EngineApparatuses, Methods and Systems (hereinafter “AIRTPE”) disclosure,include:

FIG. 1 shows a datagraph illustrating data flow(s) for the AIRTPE;

FIGS. 2A-C show a logic flow illustrating embodiments of a machinelearning training (MLT) component for the AIRTPE;

FIG. 3 shows a datagraph illustrating data flow(s) for the AIRTPE;

FIG. 4 shows a logic flow illustrating embodiments of a trade tickmonitoring (TTM) component for the AIRTPE;

FIG. 5 shows a datagraph illustrating data flow(s) for the AIRTPE;

FIGS. 6A-B show logic flows illustrating embodiments of a trade tickmonitoring (TTM) component for the AIRTPE;

FIG. 7 shows implementation case(s) for the AIRTPE;

FIG. 8 shows implementation case(s) for the AIRTPE;

FIG. 9 shows implementation case(s) for the AIRTPE;

FIG. 10 shows implementation case(s) for the AIRTPE;

FIG. 11 shows implementation case(s) for the AIRTPE;

FIG. 12 shows a block diagram illustrating embodiments of a AIRTPEcontroller.

Generally, the leading number of each citation number within thedrawings indicates the figure in which that citation number isintroduced and/or detailed. As such, a detailed discussion of citationnumber 101 would be found and/or introduced in FIG. 1. Citation number201 is introduced in FIG. 2, etc. Any citations and/or reference numbersare not necessarily sequences but rather just example orders that may berearranged and other orders are contemplated. Citation number suffixesmay indicate that an earlier introduced item has been re-referenced inthe context of a later figure and may indicate the same item,evolved/modified version of the earlier introduced item, etc., e.g.,server 199 of FIG. 1 may be a similar server 299 of FIG. 2 in the sameand/or new context.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The AI-Based Real-Time Prediction Engine Apparatuses, Methods andSystems (hereinafter “AIRTPE”) transforms machine learning traininginput, order placement input inputs, via AIRTPE components (e.g., MLT,TTM, etc. components), into machine learning training output, orderplacement output, information leakage alert outputs. The AIRTPEcomponents, in various embodiments, implement advantageous features asset forth below.

Introduction

The AIRTPE provides unconventional features (e.g., identify importantfeatures to enable application of artificial intelligence techniques toinfer information from trade prints, such as to infer who and throughwhat means causes a trade print to occur in the equity market) that werenever before available in machine learning. In various embodiments, theAIRTPE increases intelligence to understand market participants in aspecific trading symbol, creates surveillance capability for clients,alters order entry parameters and/or trading strategies based oncounterparty/competitive landscape, and/or the like. In someimplementations, the AIRTPE achieves good predictive performance byconnecting trade/execution data to market data, performing extensivefeature engineering, and discovering suitable artificial intelligencetechniques.

Market participants can readily access trade tick data that providesinformation such as time, symbol, price, size and venue of crosses.However, it is not easy to directly infer who, or through what means,each trade print is associated with. For example, a trade print can bedue to a retail submitting a buy order that crosses spread towards ask.Or a trade print can be due to an institution submitting a sell orderthrough a VWAP algo to sell. The AIRTPE provides an artificialintelligence system that deduces this information. By answering thewho/what questions the AIRTPE enables a number of applications, such as:

-   -   Surveillance system to detect potential information leakage of        active orders    -   Signals that feed into logics and alter behavior to improve        performance of trading algorithms    -   Altering trade instructions as a result of surveying the market        before entering a position

FIG. 1 shows a datagraph illustrating data flow(s) for the AIRTPE. InFIG. 1, a client 102 (e.g., of an administrator authorized to initiatetraining) may send a machine learning (ML) training input 121 to a MLtraining server 104 to facilitate training a real-time prediction logicusing a machine learning technique. For example, the client may be adesktop, a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone, a smartwatch, and/or the likethat is executing a client application. In one implementation, the MLtraining input may include data such as a request identifier, a machinelearning technique identifier, machine learning technique configurationparameters, a training dataset, training dataset filter criteria, atesting dataset, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the client mayprovide the following example ML training input, substantially in theform of a (Secure) Hypertext Transfer Protocol (“HTTP(S)”) POST messageincluding eXtensible Markup Language (“XML”) formatted data, as providedbelow:

POST /authrequest.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.com Content-Type:Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0” encoding =“UTF-8”?> <auth_request> <timestamp>2020-12-31 23:59:59</timestamp><user_accounts_details> <user_account_credentials><user_name>JohnDaDoeDoeDoooe@gmail.com</user_name><password>abc123</password> //OPTIONAL <cookie>cookieID</cookie>//OPTIONAL <digital_cert_link>www.mydigitalcertificate.com/JohnDoeDaDoeDoe@gmail.com/mycertifcate.dc</digital_cert_link> //OPTIONAL<digital_certificate>_DATA_</digital_certificate></user_account_credentials> </user_accounts_details> <client_details>//iOS Client with App and Webkit //it should be noted that althoughseveral client details //sections are provided to show example variantsof client //sources, further messages will include only on to save//space <client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP> <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0(iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML,like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11D201 Safari/9537.53</user_agent_string><client_product_type>iPhone6,1</client_product_type><client_serial_number>DNXXX1X1XXXX</client_serial_number><client_UDID>3XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXD</client_UDID><client_OS>iOS</client_OS> <client_OS_version>7.1.1</client_OS_version><client_app_type>app with webkit</client_app_type><app_installed_flag>true</app_installed_flag><app_name>AIRTPE.app</app_name> <app_version>1.0 </app_version><app_webkit_name>Mobile Safari</client_webkit_name><client_version>537.51.2</client_version> </client_details><client_details> //iOS Client with Webbrowser<client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP> <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0(iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML,like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11D201 Safari/9537.53</user_agent_string><client_product_type>iPhone6,1</client_product_type><client_serial_number>DNXXX1X1XXXX</client_serial_number><client_UDID>3XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXD</client_UDID><client_OS>iOS</client_OS> <client_OS_version>7.1.1</client_OS_version><client_app_type>web browser</client_app_type> <client_name>MobileSafari</client_name> <client_version>9537.53</client_version></client_details> <client_details> //Android Client with Webbrowser<client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP> <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0 (Linux;U; Android 4.0.4; en-us; Nexus S Build/IMM76D) AppleWebKit/534.30(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30</user_agent_string><client_product_type>Nexus S</client_product_type><client_serial_number>YXXXXXXXXZ</client_serial_number><client_UDID>FXXXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXX</client_UDID><client_OS>Android</client_OS><client_OS_version>4.0.4</client_OS_version> <client_app_type>webbrowser</client_app_type> <client_name>Mobile Safari</client_name><client_version>534.30</client_version> </client_details><client_details> //Mac Desktop with Webbrowser<client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP> <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0(Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.75.14 (KHTML, likeGecko) Version/7.0.3 Safari/537.75.14</user_agent_string><client_product_type>MacPro5,1</client_product_type><client_serial_number>YXXXXXXXXZ</client_serial_number><client_UDID>FXXXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXX</client_UDID><client_OS>Mac OS X</client_OS><client_OS_version>10.9.3</client_OS_version> <client_app_type>webbrowser</client_app_type> <client_name>Mobile Safari</client_name><client_version>537.75.14</client_version> </client_details><machine_learning_training_input><request_identifier>ID_request_1</request_identifier><machine_learning_technique_identifier> ID_random_forest_classifier</machine_learning_technique_identifier><machine_learning_technique_configuration_parameters><max_depth>6</max_depth> <n_estimators>1000</n_estimators><class_weight>balanced</class_weight> <n_jobs>−1</n_jobs></machine_learning_technique_configuration_parameters><training_dataset> <dataset>equities from 7/1/2019 through7/31/2019</dataset> <filter_criteria>stratify over client_id, tier, algotype</filter_criteria> </training_dataset> <testing_dataset><dataset>equities from 9/1/2019 through 10/31/2019</dataset></testing_dataset> </machine_learning_training_input> </auth_request>

The ML training server 104 may send a trade tick data request 125 to atrade tick repository 106 to obtain trade tick and/or quote trainingdata and/or testing data. In one implementation, the trade tick datarequest may include data such as a request identifier, specification oftrade tick data to retrieve, specification of quote data to retrieve,and/or the like. In one embodiment, the ML training server may providethe following example trade tick data request, substantially in the formof a HTTP(S) POST message including XML-formatted data, as providedbelow:

POST /trade_tick_data_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <trade_tick_data_request><request_identifier>ID_request_2</request_identifier><trade_tick_data_to_retrieve> sym, time, exch, price, size, trade_qualfor equities from 7/1/2019 through 7/31/2019 for training and from9/1/2019 through 10/31/2019 for testing </trade_tick_data_to_retrieve><quote_data_to_retrieve> quote_time, sym, ask, bid, ask_size, bid_sizefor equities from 7/1/2019 through 7/31/2019 for training and from9/1/2019 through 10/31/2019 for testing </quote_data_to_retrieve></trade_tick_data_request>

The trade tick repository 106 may send a trade tick data response 129 tothe ML training server 104 with the requested trade tick and/or quotetraining data and/or testing data.

The ML training server 104 may send an order execution data request 133to an order execution repository 108 to obtain order execution trainingdata and/or testing data. In one implementation, the order executiondata request may include data such as a request identifier,specification of order execution data to retrieve, and/or the like. Inone embodiment, the ML training server may provide the following exampleorder execution data request, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S)POST message including XML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_execution_data_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_execution_data_request><request_identifier>ID_request_3</request_identifier><order_execution_data_to_retrieve> date, TCARootOrderID, TCAExecutionID,ClientID, BusinessType, SideAdjustment, ComponentSenderName, sym, price,size, time, LastMarketName, LastMarketClass, RootAlgoID,LeafExDestination for equities from 7/1/2019 through 7/31/2019 fortraining and from 9/1/2019 through 10/31/2019 for testing</order_execution_data_to_retrieve> </order_execution_data_request>

The order execution repository 108 may send an order execution dataresponse 137 to the ML training server 104 with the requested orderexecution training data and/or testing data.

A machine learning training (MEI) component 141 may utilize the trainingdata and/or the testing data to train a real-time prediction logic. SeeFIGS. 2A-C for additional details regarding the MLT component.

The ML training server 104 may send a prediction logic store request 145to a ML repository 110 to store the trained real-time prediction logic.In one implementation, the prediction logic store request may includedata such as a request identifier, a request type, a prediction logicidentifier, prediction logic configuration data, and/or the like. In oneembodiment, the ML training server may provide the following exampleprediction logic store request, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S)POST message including XML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /prediction_logic_store_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <prediction_logic_store_request><request_identifier>ID_request_4</request_identifier><request_type>STORE</request_type><prediction_logic_identifier>ID_prediction_logic_1</prediction_logic_identifier><prediction_logic_configuration_data> random forest classifierconfiguration data </prediction_logic_configuration_data></prediction_logic_store_request>

The ML repository 110 may send a prediction logic store response 149 tothe ML training server 104 to confirm that the trained real-timeprediction logic was stored successfully. In one implementation, theprediction logic store response may include data such as a responseidentifier, a status, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the MLrepository may provide the following example prediction logic storeresponse, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /prediction_logic_store_response.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <prediction_logic_store_response><response_identifier>ID_response_4</response_identifier><status>OK</status> </prediction_logic_store_response>

The ML training server 104 may send a machine learning training output153 to the client 102 to inform the administrator that training wascompleted successfully. In one implementation, the machine learningtraining output may include data such as a response identifier, astatus, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the ML training server mayprovide the following example machine learning training output,substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /machine_learning_training_output.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <machine_learning_training_output><response_identifier>ID_response_1</response_identifier><status>OK</status> </machine_learning_training_output>

FIG. 2A shows a logic flow illustrating embodiments of a machinelearning training (MLT) component for the AIRTPE. In FIG. 2A, a machinelearning (ML) training request may be obtained at 201. For example, theML training request may be obtained as a result of an administratorinitiating training and/or testing of a real-time prediction logic.

Historical trade tick data may be retrieved at 205. For example, thehistorical trade tick data may comprise data similar to the following:

sym time exch price size trade_qual AAPL 4:00:00 AM P 203.79  28Normal:PrePostMkt: OddLot AAPL 4:00:00 AM P 203.9 100 Normal:PrePostMkt:IntermarketSweep AAPL 4:01:38 AM P 204.2  11 Normal:PrePostMkt:IntermarketSweep:OddLot AAPL 4:02:48 AM P 204.2  40 Normal:PrePostMkt:OddLot AAPL 4:03:00 AM Q 204.25  3 Normal:PrePostMkt: OddLot AAPL4:03:02 AM Q 204.21 100 Normal:PrePostMkt: IntermarketSweep AAPL 4:03:03AM P 204.25  97 Normal:PrePostMkt: OddLot AAPL 4:04:15 AM P 204.4  10Normal:PrePostMkt: OddLot AAPL 4:04:19 AM P 204.4  90 Normal:PrePostMkt:OddLotIn one implementation, the historical trade tick data may be retrievedfrom a repository via a trade tick data request.

The historical trade tick data may be augmented at 209 to includeadditional features from historical quote data. See FIG. 2B foradditional details regarding augmenting the historical trade tick data.

Labeled trade tick data may be generated at 213 for use during training(e.g., one month of training data) and/or testing (e.g., two months oftesting data with a delay of at least six weeks from the training data)of the real-time prediction logic. For example, the labeled trade tickdata may comprise the augmented historical trade tick data with mappedhistorical order execution data similar to the following:

feature_name value price 74.68 size 4 a 74.69 b 74.68 as 8 bs 10 volAll5232526.1 volAsk5 0.345622 volBid5 0.369406 volMid5 0.346069 volDark50.335614 volBlock5 0.111249 cntAll5 1565.451 cntSec5 0.032012 cntMin50.082415 cntQtr5 0.052086 cntCent5 0.189405 cntSwpAsk5 0.142628cntSwpBid5 0.194688 cntDark5 0.188148 vwap5 74.71516 dev5 0.000487quarter False cent False nearMinute False nearSecond False cntMs 1cntSec 6 msize 4 cnt10Ms 1 cnt100Ms 2 qdt_30 False qdt_29 False . . . .. . qdt_2 False qdt_1 False qdt0 False qdt1 False . . . . . . qdt29False qdt30 False Retail 0.006726 MDV 11837872 TypicalIntervalSpreadBps1.457638 MarketCap 1.95E+11 ADR False ETF False CEF False Common Truedollar_normalized0_Dark_ATS 0 dollar_normalized0_Dark_MM 0dollar_normalized1_Grey 0 dollar_normalized2_NYSE 0dollar_normalized3_NSDQ 0 dollar_normalized4_ARCA 0dollar_normalized5_BATS 0 dollar_normalized6_EDGX 0dollar_normalized7_IEX 0 dollar_normalized8_Other 0dollar_normalized9_Invert 0 dollar_normalizedOpen 0dollar_normalizedzClose 0 size_normalized0_Dark_ATS 0 . . . . . .size_normalized1_Grey 0 size_normalized2_NYSE 0 size_normalized3_NSDQ 0size_normalized4_ARCA 0 size_normalized5_BATS 0 size_normalized6_EDGX 0size_normalized7_IEX 0 size_normalized8_Other 0 size_normalized9_Invert0 size_normalizedOpen 0 size_normalizedzClose 0 trade_qualifier_AvPrice0 trade_qualifier_Cross 0 trade_qualifier_DerivativelyPriced 0trade_qualifier_IntermarketSweep 1 trade_qualifier_MarketCenterClose 0trade_qualifier_MarketCenterOpen 0 trade_qualifier_Normal 0trade_qualifier_OddLot 1 trade_qualifier_Opened 0trade_qualifier_ReOpeningPrints 0 exchange_B 0 exchange_C 0 exchange_DF0 exchange_IX 0 exchange_J 0 exchange_K 0 exchange_N 1 exchange_P 0exchange_Q 0 exchange_X 0 exchange_Y 0 exchange_Z 0 trade_hour_9 0trade_hour_10 0 trade_hour_11 0 trade_hour_12 0 trade_hour_13 0trade_hour_14 0 trade_hour_15 1In one embodiment, a fuzzy matching logic may be utilized to mapexecution data to market data. See FIG. 2C for additional detailsregarding generating the labeled trade tick data.

A subset of the labeled trade tick data to use for machine learning(e.g., for training) may be determined at 217. In one embodiment, thesubset of the labeled trade tick data to use for machine learning isselected to avoid overfitting. In one implementation, samplingstratified over a set of buckets (e.g., client_id, tier, algo type,etc.) is utilized to ensure sufficient representation in skeweddistributions (e.g., where a small set of clients can account for a verylarge percentage of the dataset). For example, a random sample may beselected based on a row count basis (e.g., based on a percentage of abucket that may be from one entity) and/or a value threshold (e.g., nomore than 4,000 samples from any one client).

The labeled trade tick data subset may be split into a training set anda testing set at 221. In one implementation, if the labeled trade tickdata was not previously separated into training data and testing data,the labeled trade tick data subset may be split (e.g., to use one thirdof the data for training and two thirds of the data for testing).

A machine learning technique may be used on the training set to trainthe real-time prediction logic at 225. For example, machine learningtechniques such as random forest, gradient boosting, decision tree,logistic regression, and/or the like may be used. In one implementation,a machine learning framework such as scikit-learn may be utilized totrain the real-time prediction logic. In various implementations, amachine learning technique may be configured similarly to one of thefollowing:

Random Forest rf_model = RandomForestClassifier(max_depth=6,n_estimators=1000, class_weight=“balanced”, n_jobs=−1) Gradient Boostingxgb_model = XGBClassifier(max_depth=6, n_estimators=1000, n_jobs=−1)Decision Tree dt_model = DecisionTreeClassifier(class_weight=“balanced”,max_depth=6)

The real-time prediction logic may be tested using the testing set at229. In one implementation, the real-time prediction logic may determineinferred labels (e.g., who: institutional, retail, direct; where: tier 1dark, tier 2 dark, lit; what algorithm used: dark, VWAP, SOR; limitprice) for the augmented historical trade tick data in the testing setand compare the inferred labels to the actual labels to determine thereal-time prediction logic's accuracy. If it is determined at 233 thatthe real-time prediction logic's performance is not acceptable (e.g.,below a specified correctness threshold), training settings may bemodified at 237 (e.g., a different machine learning technique may beselected, machine learning technique configuration settings may beadjusted) and a new or improved real-time prediction logic may betrained and/or tested.

If it is determined at 233 that the real-time prediction logic'sperformance is acceptable (e.g., at or above a specified correctnessthreshold), the real-time prediction logic may be stored at 241. Forexample, the real-time prediction logic (e.g., prediction logicconfiguration data that defines the real-time prediction logic) may bestored in the prediction logics table 1219 j. In one implementation, thereal-time prediction logic may be stored to a binary, portable file thatcan be loaded and used on a real-time basis. If the real-timeenvironment has multiple servers handling the request load, each servermay independently run this binarized file for predictions.

FIG. 2B shows additional details regarding augmenting the historicaltrade tick data. In FIG. 2B, historical quote data may be retrieved at202. For example, the historical quote data may comprise data similar tothe following:

quote_time sym ask bid ask_size bid_size 9:30:00 AM AAPL 199.01 198.8811 2 9:30:00 AM AAPL 199 198.88 1 2 9:30:00 AM AAPL 199.01 198.88 11 19:30:00 AM AAPL 199.1 198.88 29 4 9:30:00 AM AAPL 199.01 198.88 3 39:30:00 AM AAPL 199.01 198.93 3 1 9:30:00 AM AAPL 199.01 198.94 3 2

An as of join of quote data to trade tick data may be performed at 204.In one implementation, the as of join may be performed using one or moreQ commands on a kdb+ database. For example, data columns such as sym,trade_time, size, price, exchange, trade_qual, a (ask), b (bid), as (asksize), bs (bid size), core, and/or the like may be obtained.

A label may be added to trade near bid/mid/ask at 206. In oneimplementation, the label may be added using one or more Q commands on akdb+ database. For example, the label may be added using commandssimilar to the following:

price=a price=b price=0.5*a+b (trade_qual like “*Sweep*”)&price>0.5*a+b

A label for venue and/or block trades may be added at 208. In oneimplementation, the label may be added using one or more Q commands on akdb+ database. For example, the label may be added using commandssimilar to the following:

exchange=′DF

(exchange=′DF)*(size>5000)&(200000<size*price)

A label for trade time may be added at 210. In one implementation, thelabel may be added using one or more Q commands on a kdb+ database. Forexample, the label may be added using commands similar to the following:

30>trade_time mod 1000

Price features may be added at 212. In one implementation, the pricefeatures may be added using one or more Q commands on a kdb+ database.For example, the price features may be added using commands similar tothe following:

0=1 xbar (100*price) mod 25

Print uniqueness features may be added at 214. In one implementation,the print uniqueness features may be added using one or more Q commandson a kdb+ database. For example, print uniqueness features such as nearminute, near second, quote stability, and/or the like may be added.

Exponent moving average features may be added and/or data may benormalized (e.g., to adjust values to a common scale) at 216. In oneimplementation, the features may be added and/or data may be normalizedusing one or more Q commands on a kdb+ database. For example, theexponent moving average features may be added using commands similar tothe following:

vems[5min; factor] compute exponential moving sum for factor at with 5minute interval. trd: update emafactors: flip vems[300000;;dt] peach({grave over ( )}float$size; {grave over ( )}float$size*price=a; {graveover ( )}float$size*price=b; {grave over ( )}float$size*price=0.5*a+b;{grave over ( )}float$size*exchange={grave over ( )}DF; {grave over( )}float$size*(exchange={grave over( )}DF)*(size>5000)&(200000<size*price); price*size; price*price*size;(count i)#1f; {grave over ( )}float$30>trade_time mod 1000; {grave over( )}float$3000>trade_time mod 60000; {grave over ( )}float$0=1 xbar(100*price) mod 25; {grave over ( )}float$0=1 xbar (100*price) mod 10;(trade_qual like “*Sweep*”)&price>0.5*a+b; (trade_qual like“*Sweep*”)&price<0.5*a+b; exchange={grave over ( )}DF) by sym from trd;

FIG. 2C shows additional details regarding generating the labeled tradetick data. In FIG. 2C, historical order execution data may be retrievedat 222. For example, the historical order execution data may comprisedata similar to the following:

column_name value date 2019.10.08 TCARootOrderID “1104n_18177_272398_20191008_RouteHub” TCAExecutionID “ab4_2458765_1081384_20191008_RouteHub” ClientID ′1 BusinessType ′N SideAdjustment −1ComponentSenderName “POST LIT” sym ′AVT price 40.05 size 66 time12:53:34.954 LastMarketName “NASDAQ (LastKnown, Tag30 missing)”LastMarketClass “EXCHANGE/ECN (LastKnown, Tag30 missing)” RootAlgoID′HELMVWAPN LeafExDestination ′NSDQ_DAYIn one implementation, the historical order execution data may beretrieved from a repository via an order execution data request.

Exchange codes may be inferred from the historical order execution databased on venue at 224. In one implementation, the exchange codes may beinferred using one or more Q commands on a kdb+ database. For example,the exchange codes may be inferred using commands similar to thefollowing:

exc: update exchange: marketnamemap LastMarketName from exc; exc: updateexchange: {grave over ( )}DF from exc where (LastMarketClass like “DARKPOOL”)

Predicted labels may be created based on the historical order executiondata at 226. In one implementation, the predicted labels may be createdusing one or more Q commands on a kdb+ database. For example, thepredicted labels may be created using commands similar to the following:

rmap: update Product: {grave over ( )}SOR from rmap where ClientProductlike “*ROUTER*”; rmap: update Product: {grave over ( )}VWAP from rmapwhere ClientProduct like “*VWAP*”; rmap: update Product: {grave over( )}TWAP from rmap where ClientProduct like “*TWAP*”; rmap: updateProduct: {grave over ( )}Dark from rmap where ClientProduct like“*DARK*”; exc: update Tier: {grave over ( )}1Retail from exc whereClientType={grave over ( )}Retail, LastMarketClass like “DARK POOL*”;exc: update Tier: {grave over ( )}Lit from exc where LastMarketClasslike “EXCHANGE*”;For example, the following predicted labels may be utilized:

Predicted Predicted algo type client type Predicted tier Predicted statePredicted venue SOR Institutional Tier 1 Dark Neutral BARC LX TWAPService Bureau Tier 2 Dark Aggressive BIDS VWAP RIA Lit Passive BOFAINSTINCT X DARK Retail Exhaust from CITI CROSS POV FamilyOffice MarketMaker CSFB CROSSFINDER LSA MarketMaker DB SUPERX IS FCM CROSSSTREAMBlock GS SIGMAX2 Close INSTINET CBX DMA ITG POSIT Desk JPM-X Dark LEVELATS Other MS POOL MS RETAIL POOL UBS ATS UBS PIN VIRTU LINK VIRTUMATCHIT

A time with buffer column of the historical order execution data may beflipped (e.g., transposed using the Q flip command) at 228. In oneembodiment, time reported by different systems (e.g., different venues,the AIRTPE) is different. Accordingly, a buffer (e.g., which may beadded to the reported time) may be specified for each system tofacilitate aligning times reported by different systems. In oneimplementation, the buffers may be specified using one or more Qcommands on a kdb+ database. For example, the buffers may be specifiedusing commands similar to the following:

exc: select from exc where not null exchange; exc: update buffer:00:00:00.010 from exc where LastMarketClass like “EXCHANGE/ECN*”; exc:update buffer: 00:00:00.050 from exc where LastMarketClass like “DARKPOOL*”;

A time column of the augmented historical trade tick data may be flipped(e.g., transposed using the Q flip command) at 230.

An as of join of the historical order execution data with the augmentedhistorical trade tick data may be performed at 232 to generate labeledtrade tick data. In one embodiment, the as of join may be performed bymatching each execution to a nearest future reported print in theSecurities Information Processor (SIP) based on columns such as price,size, exchange and core print identifier. In one implementation, the asof join may be performed using one or more Q commands on a kdb+database. For example, the as of join may be performed using commandssimilar to the following:

ajG[select from exc where sym=x;delete sym from select from trd wheresym=x;{grave over ( )}price{grave over ( )}size{grave over( )}exchange{grave over ( )}core;{grave over ( )}rt]

The labeled trade tick data may be stored (e.g., in memory, in arepository) at 234.

A determination may be made at 236 whether there exists residualhistorical order execution data unmatched with the augmented historicaltrade tick data. If so, the residual historical order execution data maybe grouped on similar time at 238. For example, sometimes multipleexecutions are reported as a single print in the market. In oneimplementation, the residual historical order execution data may begrouped into 10 millisecond time chunks. For example, the residualhistorical order execution data may be grouped using commands similar tothe following:

excgrp: 0!select first TCAExecutionID, sum size, max buffer, max rt bydate, TCARootOrderID, ClientID, BusinessType, SideAdjustment,ComponentSenderName, sym, price, 10 xbar time, LastMarketName,LastMarketClass, RootAlgoID, LeafExDestination, exchange, core from excjwhere null trade_time, trade_time < time+00:00:20;

An as of join of the grouped residual historical order execution datawith the augmented historical trade tick data may be performed at 240.In one implementation, an additional buffer (e.g., of 300 milliseconds)may be added before joining to account for additional delay. Forexample, the as of join may be performed using commands similar to thefollowing:

ajG[update rt: rt+00:00:00.300 from select from excgrp wheresym=x;delete sym, size from update msize: size from select from trdwhere sym=x;{grave over ( )}price{grave over ( )}exchange{grave over( )}core;{grave over ( )}rt]

The additional labeled trade tick data may be stored (e.g., in memory,in a repository) at 242.

A determination may be made at 244 whether there exists residualhistorical order execution data unmatched with the augmented historicaltrade tick data. If so, venue labels on the residual historical orderexecution data may be fixed at 246 (e.g., market makers can sometimes doa DF print when LastMarket seems to be exchange). For example, the venuelabels on the residual historical order execution data may be fixedusing commands similar to the following:

update exchange: {grave over ( )}DF from select from excgrp where nulltrade_time, LeafExDestination like “*MM_*”, trade_time < time+00:00:20;

An as of join of the fixed residual historical order execution data withthe augmented historical trade tick data may be performed at 248. In oneimplementation, an additional buffer (e.g., of 300 milliseconds) may beadded before joining to account for additional delay.

The additional labeled trade tick data may be stored (e.g., in memory,in a repository) at 250.

Symbol level features may be determined from the historical orderexecution data at 252. For example, the symbol level features mayinclude median daily volume, market cap, typical spread, retailinterest, institutional interest, Is ETF?, Is CEF?, Is ADR?, ATSstatistics, and/or the like. In one implementation, the symbol levelfeatures may be determined using one or more Q commands on a kdb+database. For example, the symbol level features may be determined usingcommands similar to the following:

symfactor: select MDV: first MedianDailyVolume21Day, avgTypicalIntervalSpreadBps, first MarketCap, first SecurityType by sym:Symbol from Order where date=d, IsRoot=1b, IsIndividualOrder=1b,OrderQuantityPctMDV>0, TypicalIntervalSpreadBps>0; symfactor: updateADR: 1b from symfactor where SecurityType like “ADR”; symfactor: updateETF: 1b from symfactor where SecurityType like “ETP”; symfactor: updateCEF: 1b from symfactor where SecurityType like “Close-End Fund”;symfactor: update Common: 1b from symfactor where SecurityType like“Common Stock”;

The labeled trade tick data may be updated with the symbol levelfeatures at 254. In one implementation, the updated labeled trade tickdata may be used during training and/or testing of the real-timeprediction logic.

FIG. 3 shows a datagraph illustrating data flow(s) for the AIRTPE. InFIG. 3, an AIRTPE server 304 may send a prediction logic retrieverequest 321 to a ML repository 306 to retrieve a trained real-timeprediction logic. In one implementation, the prediction logic retrieverequest may include data such as a request identifier, a request type, aprediction logic identifier, and/or the like. In one embodiment, theAIRTPE server may provide the following example prediction logicretrieve request, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST messageincluding XML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /prediction_logic_retrieve_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?> <prediction_logic_retrieve_request><request_identifier>ID_request_11</request_identifier><request_type>RETRIEVE</request_type><prediction_logic_identifier>ID_prediction_logic_1</prediction_logic_identifier></prediction_logic_retrieve_request>

The ML repository 306 may send a prediction logic retrieve response 325to the AIRTPE server 304 with the requested prediction logicconfiguration data. In one implementation, the prediction logic retrieveresponse may include data such as a response identifier, the requestedprediction logic configuration data, and/or the like. In one embodiment,the ML repository may provide the following example prediction logicretrieve response, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST messageincluding XML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /prediction_logic_retrieve_response.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?><prediction_logic_retrieve_response><response_identifier>ID_response_11</response_identifier><prediction_logic_configuration_data> random forest classifierconfiguration data </prediction_logic_configuration_data></prediction_logic_retrieve_response>

A client 302 (e.g., of a user) may send an order placement input 329 tothe AIRTPE server 304 to facilitate placing an order (e.g., for aspecified security). For example, the client may be a desktop, a laptop,a tablet, a smartphone, a smartwatch, and/or the like that is executinga client application. In one implementation, the order placement inputmay include data such as a request identifier, order details, and/or thelike. In one embodiment, the client may provide the following exampleorder placement input, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POSTmessage including XML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_placement_input.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_placement_input><request_identifier>ID_request_12</request_identifier> <order_details><security_identifier>AAPL</security_identifier> <action>BUY</action><quantity>1500 shares</quantity> <order_type>LIMIT</order_type><limit_price>$10</limit_price><algo_identifier>id_trading_algorithm_1</algo_identifier></order_details> </order_placement_input>

The AIRTPE server 304 may send an order placement request 333 to anexchange server 310 to facilitate placing the order (e.g., in accordancewith an order placement allocation determined by the specified tradingalgorithm). For example, one or more order placement requests may besent (e.g., over time) to one or more exchange servers (e.g., for one ormore venues) in accordance with the order placement allocation. In oneimplementation, the order placement request may include data such as arequest identifier, order details, and/or the like. In one embodiment,the AIRTPE server may provide the following example order placementrequest, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_placement_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_placement_request><request_identifier>ID_request_13</request_identifier> <order_details><venue>Dark Pool</venue> <security_identifier>AAPL</security_identifier><action>BUY</action> <quantity>2000 shares</quantity><order_type>LIMIT</order_type> <limit_price>$10</limit_price></order_details> </order_placement_request>

The exchange server 310 may send an order placement response 337 to theAIRTPE server 304 to confirm that the order was placed successfully. Inone implementation, the order placement response may include data suchas a response identifier, a status, and/or the like. In one embodiment,the exchange server may provide the following example order placementresponse, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_placement_response.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_placement_response><response_identifier>ID_response_13</response_identifier><status>OK</status> </order_placement_response>

The AIRTPE server 304 may send an order placement output 341 to theclient 302 to inform the user that the order was placed successfully. Inone implementation, the order placement output may include data such asa response identifier, a status, and/or the like. In one embodiment, theAIRTPE server may provide the following example order placement output,substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_placement_output.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_placement_output><response_identifier>ID_response_12</response_identifier><status>OK</status> </order_placement_output>

A trade tick server 308 (e.g., a market data server) may send (e.g., inreal-time) trade tick data messages 345 to the AIRTPE server 304 withtrade tick data and/or quote data (e.g., for the specified security).

A trade tick monitoring (TTM) component 349 may utilize data provided inreceived trade tick data messages to facilitate sending informationleakage alerts to the user and/or to facilitate modifying orderplacement instructions. See FIG. 4 for additional details regarding theTTM component.

If information leakage is detected, the AIRTPE server 304 may send aninformation leakage alert 353 to the client 302 to inform the userregarding the information leakage. In one implementation, theinformation leakage alert may include data such as a responseidentifier, a status, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the AIRTPEserver may provide the following example information leakage alert,substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /information_leakage_alert.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <information_leakage_alert><alert_identifier>ID_alert_14</alert_identifier> <status>Alert - tradingalgorithm can be inferred by others</status></information_leakage_alert>

FIG. 4 shows a logic flow illustrating embodiments of a trade tickmonitoring (TTM) component for the AIRTPE. In FIG. 4, an order placementdatastructure may be obtained at 401. For example, the order placementdatastructure may be obtained as a result of a user sending an orderplacement input to facilitate placing an order (e.g., for a specifiedsecurity).

An order placement allocation may be determined at 405. For example, theorder placement allocation may specify how to place one or more ordersin one or more venues to achieve the user's objective (e.g., purchase1500 shares of AAPL stock with limit price of $10). In one embodiment,the order placement allocation may be determined by a specified tradingalgorithm based on factors such as the user's objective, realizedexecution, additional market factors and signals, and/or the like. Inone implementation, before incorporating information leakage, a decisiongrid based on two factors (e.g., supply and demand) similar to thefollowing may be utilized to determine the order placement allocation:

Demand Factor <0 0-a % a-b % b-c % c-d % >d % Low Stop Tight SelectiveLiquidity Risk Control Aggressive Liquidity Seeking Neutral Stop TightVery Selective Liquidity Risk Selective Seeking Control Large Stop TightVery Very Selective Liquidity Counterparty Selective Selective Seekingwhere a sample mapping from the grid value to the actual algo placementsmay be similar to the following:

Nodes Very Risk Ag- (StMgr 9001) Selective Selective Control gressiveConditional X X X X Favorable Price X X IOC Market T2 X IOC Market T1 XX IOC Mid T2 X X X X IOC Mid T1 X X X X Post Lit X X X Peg Mid T2 X PegMid T1 X X X Peg Primary T2 X X X Retail X X X X Peg Primary T1 X X X X

For example, the order placement allocation may be similar to thefollowing:

-   -   Put 2000 shares in as Peg Primary order in Dark Pool with a        limit price of $10    -   Every 10-30 seconds, send 300 shares as Immediate-or-Cancel        (IOC) order to mid point in dark pool    -   Upon favorable price signal, take far side in lit market for 500        shares

One or more order placement request datastructures may be sent to one ormore exchange servers at 409. In one implementation, order placementrequests may be sent in accordance with the order placement allocation.

A determination may be made at 413 whether the order has been filled. Ifthe order has not been filled yet, a trade tick data message (e.g., withtrade tick data and/or quote data) may be obtained at 417. For example,the trade tick data message may include similar data as described withregard to historical trade tick data at 205 and/or with regard tohistorical quote data at 202.

Inferred labels for the print associated with the trade tick datamessage may be determined using a real-time prediction logic (e.g., aspecified trained random forest estimator) at 421. In one embodiment, asprints occur in the market, in real-time, the AIRTPE predicts inferredlabels (e.g., who: institutional, retail, direct; where: tier 1 dark,tier 2 dark, lit; what algorithm used: dark, VWAP, SOR; limit price) foreach print. The inferred labels may be compared to the actual executionof the order to assess information leakage.

Inferred labels for trade tick data messages (e.g., received since theorder placement datastructure was obtained) may be grouped into timebuckets at 425. For example, the Q cut command may be utilized forgrouping trade tick data. In one implementation, a time bucket of aspecific size may be utilized (e.g., 1 second). In anotherimplementation, a set of different time bucket sizes may be tried (e.g.,100 ms, 1 second, 10 seconds). A determination may be made at 429whether the inferred labels (e.g., for a selected time bucket size)correspond to execution data generated by the order. If so, anallocation information leakage alert may be sent at 433. For example,the allocation information leakage alert may inform the user thatinformation about the user's order (e.g., algorithm used, such as VWAP)can be inferred by someone reading the tape. A determination may be madeat 437 whether the AIRTPE is configured to take a corrective action inresponse to the allocation information leakage. If so, the orderplacement allocation for the order may be modified at 441. For example,the trading algorithm may be configured to modify algo placements (e.g.,use a different type of algo, use a different vendor) as the correctiveaction. In one implementation, after incorporating information leakage,a decision grid similar to the following may be utilized to determinethe modified order placement allocation:

Info leakage Demand Factor factor <0 0-a % a-b % b-c % c-d % >d % Lowlow chance Stop Tight Selective Liquidity Risk Aggressive LiquiditySeeking Control high chance Stop Tight Very Very Selective LiquiditySelective Selective Seeking Neutral low chance Stop Tight Very SelectiveLiquidity Risk Selective Seeking Control high chance Stop Tight VeryVery Very Selective Selective Selective Selective Large low chance StopTight Very Very Selective Liquidity Counterparty Selective SelectiveSeeking high chance Stop Tight Tight Tight Very Selective Selective

Inferred labels for trade tick data messages (e.g., received since theorder placement datastructure was obtained) may be grouped into pricebuckets at 445. For example, the Q cut command may be utilized forgrouping trade tick data. In one implementation, a price bucket may bedefined based on an exact price match. In another implementation, aprice bucket may be defined based on a percentage difference threshold(e.g., prices within 1% of each other). A determination may be made at449 whether the inferred labels (e.g., for the defined price bucket)correspond to execution data generated by the order. If so, a limitprice information leakage alert may be sent at 453. For example, thelimit price information leakage alert may inform the user thatinformation about the user's order (e.g., the limit price) can beinferred by someone reading the tape. A determination may be made at 457whether the AIRTPE is configured to take a corrective action in responseto the limit price information leakage. If so, the limit price for theorder may be modified at 461. For example, the limit price may bechanged by a random amount up to a specified limit (e.g., increase ordecrease the limit price up to 5%).

FIG. 5 shows a datagraph illustrating data flow(s) for the AIRTPE. InFIG. 5, an AIRTPE server 504 may send a prediction logic retrieverequest 521 to a ML repository 506 to retrieve a trained real-timeprediction logic. In one implementation, the prediction logic retrieverequest may include data such as a request identifier, a request type, aprediction logic identifier, and/or the like. In one embodiment, theAIRTPE server may provide the following example prediction logicretrieve request, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST messageincluding XML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /prediction_logic_retrieve_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?> <prediction_logic_retrieve_request><request_identifier>ID_request_21</request_identifier><request_type>RETRIEVE</request_type><prediction_logic_identifier>ID_prediction_logic_1</prediction_logic_identifier></prediction_logic_retrieve_request>

The ML repository 506 may send a prediction logic retrieve response 525to the AIRTPE server 504 with the requested prediction logicconfiguration data. In one implementation, the prediction logic retrieveresponse may include data such as a response identifier, the requestedprediction logic configuration data, and/or the like. In one embodiment,the ML repository may provide the following example prediction logicretrieve response, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST messageincluding XML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /prediction_logic_retrieve_response.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?><prediction_logic_retrieve_response><response_identifier>ID_response_21</response_identifier><prediction_logic_configuration_data> random forest classifierconfiguration data </prediction_logic_configuration_data></prediction_logic_retrieve_response>

A client 502 (e.g., of a user) may send an order placement input 529 tothe AIRTPE server 504 to facilitate placing an order (e.g., for aspecified security). For example, the client may be a desktop, a laptop,a tablet, a smartphone, a smartwatch, and/or the like that is executinga client application. In one implementation, the order placement inputmay include data such as a request identifier, order details, and/or thelike. In one embodiment, the client may provide the following exampleorder placement input, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POSTmessage including XML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_placement_input.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_placement_input><request_identifier>ID_request_22</request_identifier> <order_details><security_identifier>AAPL</security_identifier> <action>BUY</action><quantity>1500 shares</quantity> <order_type>LIMIT</order_type><limit_price>$10</limit_price><algo_identifier>id_trading_algorithm_1</algo_identifier></order_details> </order_placement_input>

A trade tick server 508 (e.g., a market data server) may send (e.g., inreal-time) trade tick data messages 533 to the AIRTPE server 504 withtrade tick data and/or quote data (e.g., for the specified security).

A trade tick monitoring (TTM) component 537 may utilize data provided inreceived trade tick data messages to facilitate modifying orderplacement allocation for the order. See FIGS. 6A-B for additionaldetails regarding the TTM component.

The AIRTPE server 504 may send an order placement request 541 to anexchange server 510 to facilitate placing the order (e.g., in accordancewith the modified order placement allocation determined by the specifiedtrading algorithm). For example, one or more order placement requestsmay be sent (e.g., over time) to one or more exchange servers (e.g., forone or more venues) in accordance with the modified order placementallocation. In one implementation, the order placement request mayinclude data such as a request identifier, order details, and/or thelike. In one embodiment, the AIRTPE server may provide the followingexample order placement request, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S)POST message including XML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_placement_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_placement_request><request_identifier>ID_request_23</request_identifier> <order_details><venue>Dark Pool</venue> <security_identifier>AAPL</security_identifier><action>BUY</action> <quantity>2500 shares</quantity><order_type>LIMIT</order_type> <limit_price>$10</limit_price></order_details> </order_placement_request>

The exchange server 510 may send an order placement response 545 to theAIRTPE server 504 to confirm that the order was placed successfully. Inone implementation, the order placement response may include data suchas a response identifier, a status, and/or the like. In one embodiment,the exchange server may provide the following example order placementresponse, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_placement_response.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_placement_response><response_identifier>ID_response_23</response_identifier><status>OK</status> </order_placement_response>

The AIRTPE server 504 may send an order placement output 549 to theclient 502 to inform the user that the order was filled successfully. Inone implementation, the order placement output may include data such asa response identifier, a status, and/or the like. In one embodiment, theAIRTPE server may provide the following example order placement output,substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_placement_output.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_placement_output><response_identifier>ID_response_22</response_identifier><status>OK</status> </order_placement_output>

FIGS. 6A-B show logic flows illustrating embodiments of a trade tickmonitoring (TTM) component for the AIRTPE. In FIG. 6A, a trade tick datamessage (e.g., with trade tick data and/or quote data) for a securitymay be obtained at 601. For example, trade tick data messages may beobtained to facilitate computing a real-time liquidity model for thesecurity.

Inferred labels for the print associated with the trade tick datamessage may be determined using a real-time prediction logic (e.g., aspecified trained random forest estimator) at 605. In one embodiment, asprints occur in the market, in real-time, the AIRTPE predicts inferredlabels (e.g., who: institutional, retail, direct; where: tier 1 dark,tier 2 dark, lit; what algorithm used: dark, VWAP, SOR; limit price) foreach print.

A real-time liquidity model for the security may be computed at 609. Inone implementation, the inferred labels may be analyzed (e.g., for bothbuy and sell side) to compute percentages of orders that are executed indifferent markets (e.g., dark markets, lit markets) and/or that areexecuted using different algorithms (e.g., VWAP, dark). For example, thereal-time liquidity model for the security may indicate that 40% of buyorders execute in dark markets using dark algorithms, 20% of buy ordersexecute in dark markets using a liquidity seeking algorithm, and 40% ofbuy orders execute in lit markets using VWAP algorithm.

A determination may be made at 613 whether an order for the security wasreceived (e.g., as a result of a user sending an order placement input).If so, an order placement allocation may be determined at 617. Forexample, the order placement allocation may specify how to place one ormore orders in one or more venues to achieve the user's objective (e.g.,purchase 1500 shares of AAPL stock with limit price of $10). In oneembodiment, the order placement allocation may be determined by aspecified trading algorithm based on factors such as client objective,realized execution, additional market factors and signals, and/or thelike. For example, the order placement allocation may be similar to thefollowing:

-   -   Put 2000 shares in as Peg Primary order in Dark Pool with a        limit price of $10    -   Every 10-30 seconds, send 300 shares as Immediate-or-Cancel        (IOC) order to mid point in dark pool    -   Upon favorable price signal, take far side in lit market for 500        shares

Counterparty landscape may be assessed at 621. For example, if the orderis a buy order, the real-time liquidity model for the security may beused to determine where inferred sell orders are placed and/or usingwhich algorithms, and/or to determine where inferred buy orders that maycompete with the specified trading algorithm for the buy order areplaced and/or using which algorithms.

An internal algorithmic state of the specified trading algorithm for theorder may be modified based on the counterparty landscape at 625. In oneimplementation, the internal algorithmic state may be modified to favormarkets with higher liquidity. For example, if the order is a buy orderand the counterparty landscape indicates that most sell orders areplaced in dark markets, the internal algorithmic state may be changed to“favor dark”. In another implementation, the internal algorithmic statemay be modified to indicate which other algorithm to outperform. Forexample, if the order is a buy order and the counterparty landscapeindicates that other competing buy orders use “aggressive” algorithms,the internal algorithmic state may be changed to “beat competition”.

The order placement allocation may be modified based on the modifiedinternal algorithmic state at 629. For example, if the order is a buyorder and the internal algorithmic state was changed to “favor dark”,the order placement allocation may be modified to use more peg primaryin dark, IOC or peg mid in dark, or IOC market orders to discovercounterparty. In another example, if the order is a buy order and theinternal algorithmic state was changed to “beat competition”, the orderplacement allocation may be modified to take far side lit liquidity tolock in prices before trading cost increases as liquidity gets taken bycompetitors. In some implementations, instead of modifying a previouslydetermined order placement allocation, the order placement allocationmay be initially determined using the modified internal algorithmicstate.

One or more order placement request datastructures may be sent to one ormore exchange servers at 633. In one implementation, order placementrequests may be sent in accordance with the modified order placementallocation. For example, the modified order placement allocation may besimilar to the following:

-   -   Put 2500 shares in as Peg Primary order in Dark Pool with a        limit price of $10    -   Every 10-30 seconds, send 300 shares as Immediate-or-Cancel        (IOC) order to mid point in dark pool    -   Upon favorable price signal, take far side in lit market for        1000 shares

In FIG. 6B, a trade tick data message (e.g., with trade tick data and/orquote data) for a security may be obtained at 651. For example, tradetick data messages may be obtained to facilitate detecting informationleakage for the security.

Inferred labels for the print associated with the trade tick datamessage may be determined using a real-time prediction logic (e.g., aspecified trained random forest estimator) at 655. In one embodiment, asprints occur in the market, in real-time, the AIRTPE predicts inferredlabels (e.g., who: institutional, retail, direct; where: tier 1 dark,tier 2 dark, lit; what algorithm used: dark, VWAP, SOR; limit price) foreach print.

A real-time liquidity model for the security may be computed at 659. Inone implementation, the inferred labels may be analyzed (e.g., for bothbuy and sell side) to compute percentages of orders that are executed indifferent markets (e.g., dark markets, lit markets) and/or that areexecuted using different algorithms (e.g., VWAP, dark). For example, thereal-time liquidity model for the security may indicate that 40% of buyorders execute in dark markets using dark algorithms, 20% of buy ordersexecute in dark markets using a liquidity seeking algorithm, and 40% ofbuy orders execute in lit markets using VWAP algorithm In anotherimplementation, the inferred labels may be analyzed (e.g., for both buyand sell side) to detect limit prices set by market participants. Forexample, the real-time liquidity model for the security may indicateinferred limit prices in various venues.

Counterparty landscape may be assessed at 663. For example, thereal-time liquidity model for the security may be used to determinewhere inferred sell orders are placed and/or using which algorithmsand/or at which limit prices, and/or to determine where inferred buyorders are placed and/or using which algorithms and/or at which limitprices.

A determination may be made at 667 whether information leakage for thesecurity has been detected. For example, information leakage may allow atrading algorithm to place an order for the security that results in asuperior order execution (e.g., faster execution, improvedprofitability). In one implementation, the TTM component may beconfigured (e.g., as a result of a user sending an order placementinput) to automatically generate an order for the security wheninformation leakage that allows superior order execution is detected.

If information leakage for the security has been detected, an orderplacement allocation for the security may be determined at 671. In oneembodiment, the order placement allocation may be determined by aspecified trading algorithm based on the detected information leakage.For example, if the counterparty landscape indicates that a sell orderhas been placed on a certain exchange with a certain inferred limitprice, an order placement allocation for a buy order on the exchange atthe inferred limit price may be generated.

One or more order placement request datastructures may be sent to one ormore exchange servers at 675. In one implementation, order placementrequests may be sent in accordance with the determined order placementallocation.

It is to be understood that embodiments of the TTM component describedin FIGS. 4 and 6A-B may be combined in a variety of ways. For example,the TTM component may be configured to determine an order placementallocation using the modified internal algorithmic state, and to monitorresulting orders for information leakage.

FIG. 7 shows implementation case(s) for the AIRTPE. FIG. 7 illustratesvarious questions that may be answered by the AIRTPE. Such questions mayinclude: Who is using what at what urgency? Who is behind the prints?Where are the prints coming from? What algos are in-play?

FIG. 8 shows implementation case(s) for the AIRTPE. In FIG. 8, anexample of identifying tier for dark liquidity using the AIRTPE isillustrated.

FIG. 9 shows implementation case(s) for the AIRTPE. In FIG. 9, anexample of identifying who is trading using the AIRTPE is illustrated.

FIG. 10 shows implementation case(s) for the AIRTPE. In FIG. 10, anexample of identifying algo usage using the AIRTPE is illustrated.

FIG. 11 shows implementation case(s) for the AIRTPE. In FIG. 11, anexample of identifying information leakage using the AIRTPE isillustrated.

AIRTPE Controller

FIG. 12 shows a block diagram illustrating embodiments of a AIRTPEcontroller. In this embodiment, the AIRTPE controller 1201 may serve toaggregate, process, store, search, serve, identify, instruct, generate,match, and/or facilitate interactions with a computer through machinelearning technologies, and/or other related data.

Users, which may be people and/or other systems, may engage informationtechnology systems (e.g., computers) to facilitate informationprocessing. In turn, computers employ processors to process information;such processors 1203 may be referred to as central processing units(CPU). One form of processor is referred to as a microprocessor. CPUsuse communicative circuits to pass binary encoded signals acting asinstructions to allow various operations. These instructions may beoperational and/or data instructions containing and/or referencing otherinstructions and data in various processor accessible and operable areasof memory 1229 (e.g., registers, cache memory, random access memory,etc.). Such communicative instructions may be stored and/or transmittedin batches (e.g., batches of instructions) as programs and/or datacomponents to facilitate desired operations. These stored instructioncodes, e.g., programs, may engage the CPU circuit components and othermotherboard and/or system components to perform desired operations. Onetype of program is a computer operating system, which, may be executedby CPU on a computer; the operating system enables and facilitates usersto access and operate computer information technology and resources.Some resources that may be employed in information technology systemsinclude: input and output mechanisms through which data may pass intoand out of a computer; memory storage into which data may be saved; andprocessors by which information may be processed. These informationtechnology systems may be used to collect data for later retrieval,analysis, and manipulation, which may be facilitated through a databaseprogram. These information technology systems provide interfaces thatallow users to access and operate various system components.

In one embodiment, the AIRTPE controller 1201 may be connected to and/orcommunicate with entities such as, but not limited to: one or more usersfrom peripheral devices 1212 (e.g., user input devices 1211); anoptional cryptographic processor device 1228; and/or a communicationsnetwork 1213.

Networks comprise the interconnection and interoperation of clients,servers, and intermediary nodes in a graph topology. It should be notedthat the term “server” as used throughout this application refersgenerally to a computer, other device, program, or combination thereofthat processes and responds to the requests of remote users across acommunications network. Servers serve their information to requesting“clients.” The term “client” as used herein refers generally to acomputer, program, other device, user and/or combination thereof that iscapable of processing and making requests and obtaining and processingany responses from servers across a communications network. A computer,other device, program, or combination thereof that facilitates,processes information and requests, and/or furthers the passage ofinformation from a source user to a destination user is referred to as a“node.” Networks are generally thought to facilitate the transfer ofinformation from source points to destinations. A node specificallytasked with furthering the passage of information from a source to adestination is called a “router.” There are many forms of networks suchas Local Area Networks (LANs), Pico networks, Wide Area Networks (WANs),Wireless Networks (WLANs), etc. For example, the Internet is, generally,an interconnection of a multitude of networks whereby remote clients andservers may access and interoperate with one another.

The AIRTPE controller 1201 may be based on computer systems that maycomprise, but are not limited to, components such as: a computersystemization 1202 connected to memory 1229.

Computer Systemization

A computer systemization 1202 may comprise a clock 1230, centralprocessing unit (“CPU(s)” and/or “processor(s)” (these terms are usedinterchangeable throughout the disclosure unless noted to the contrary))1203, a memory 1229 (e.g., a read only memory (ROM) 1206, a randomaccess memory (RAM) 1205, etc.), and/or an interface bus 1207, and mostfrequently, although not necessarily, are all interconnected and/orcommunicating through a system bus 1204 on one or more (mother)board(s)1202 having conductive and/or otherwise transportive circuit pathwaysthrough which instructions (e.g., binary encoded signals) may travel toeffectuate communications, operations, storage, etc. The computersystemization may be connected to a power source 1286; e.g., optionallythe power source may be internal. Optionally, a cryptographic processor1226 may be connected to the system bus. In another embodiment, thecryptographic processor, transceivers (e.g., ICs) 1274, and/or sensorarray (e.g., accelerometer, altimeter, ambient light, barometer, globalpositioning system (GPS) (thereby allowing AIRTPE controller todetermine its location), gyroscope, magnetometer, pedometer, proximity,ultra-violet sensor, etc.) 1273 may be connected as either internaland/or external peripheral devices 1212 via the interface bus I/O 1208(not pictured) and/or directly via the interface bus 1207. In turn, thetransceivers may be connected to antenna(s) 1275, thereby effectuatingwireless transmission and reception of various communication and/orsensor protocols; for example the antenna(s) may connect to varioustransceiver chipsets (depending on deployment needs), including:Broadcom® BCM4329FKUBG transceiver chip (e.g., providing 802.11n,Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, FM, etc.); a Broadcom® BCM4752GPS receiver withaccelerometer, altimeter, GPS, gyroscope, magnetometer; a Broadcom®BCM4335 transceiver chip (e.g., providing 2G, 3G, and 4G long-termevolution (LTE) cellular communications; 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0 lowenergy (LE) (e.g., beacon features)); a Broadcom® BCM43341 transceiverchip (e.g., providing 2G, 3G and 4G LTE cellular communications;802.11g/, Bluetooth 4.0, near field communication (NFC), FM radio); anInfineon Technologies® X-Gold 618-PMB9800 transceiver chip (e.g.,providing 2G/3G HSDPA/HSUPA communications); a MediaTek® MT6620transceiver chip (e.g., providing 802.11a/ac/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 LE,FM, GPS; a Lapis Semiconductor® ML8511 UV sensor; a maxim integratedMAX44000 ambient light and infrared proximity sensor; a TexasInstruments® WiLink WL1283 transceiver chip (e.g., providing 802.11n,Bluetooth 3.0, FM, GPS); and/or the like. The system clock may have acrystal oscillator and generates a base signal through the computersystemization's circuit pathways. The clock may be coupled to the systembus and various clock multipliers that will increase or decrease thebase operating frequency for other components interconnected in thecomputer systemization. The clock and various components in a computersystemization drive signals embodying information throughout the system.Such transmission and reception of instructions embodying informationthroughout a computer systemization may be referred to ascommunications. These communicative instructions may further betransmitted, received, and the cause of return and/or replycommunications beyond the instant computer systemization to:communications networks, input devices, other computer systemizations,peripheral devices, and/or the like. It should be understood that inalternative embodiments, any of the above components may be connecteddirectly to one another, connected to the CPU, and/or organized innumerous variations employed as exemplified by various computer systems.

The CPU comprises at least one high-speed data processor adequate toexecute program components for executing user and/or system-generatedrequests. The CPU is often packaged in a number of formats varying fromlarge supercomputer(s) and mainframe(s) computers, down to minicomputers, servers, desktop computers, laptops, thin clients (e.g.,Chromebooks®), netbooks, tablets (e.g., Android®, iPads®, and Windows®tablets, etc.), mobile smartphones (e.g., Android®, iPhones®, Nokia®,Palm® and Windows® phones, etc.), wearable device(s) (e.g., watches,glasses, goggles (e.g., Google Glass), etc.), and/or the like. Often,the processors themselves will incorporate various specializedprocessing units, such as, but not limited to: integrated system (bus)controllers, memory management control units, floating point units, andeven specialized processing sub-units like graphics processing units,digital signal processing units, and/or the like. Additionally,processors may include internal fast access addressable memory, and becapable of mapping and addressing memory 1229 beyond the processoritself; internal memory may include, but is not limited to: fastregisters, various levels of cache memory (e.g., level 1, 2, 3, etc.),RAM, etc. The processor may access this memory through the use of amemory address space that is accessible via instruction address, whichthe processor can construct and decode allowing it to access a circuitpath to a specific memory address space having a memory state. The CPUmay be a microprocessor such as: AMD's Athlon®, Duron® and/or Opteron®;Apple's® A series of processors (e.g., A5, A6, A7, A8, etc.); ARM's®application, embedded and secure processors; IBM® and/or Motorola'sDragonBall® and PowerPC®; IBM's® and Sony's® Cell processor; Intel's®80X86 series (e.g., 80386, 80486), Pentium®, Celeron®, Core (2) Duo®, iseries (e.g., i3, i5, i7, etc.), Itanium®, Xeon®, and/or XScale®;Motorola's® 680X0 series (e.g., 68020, 68030, 68040, etc.); and/or thelike processor(s). The CPU interacts with memory through instructionpassing through conductive and/or transportive conduits (e.g., (printed)electronic and/or optic circuits) to execute stored instructions (i.e.,program code) according to various data processing techniques. Suchinstruction passing facilitates communication within the AIRTPEcontroller and beyond through various interfaces. Should processingrequirements dictate a greater amount speed and/or capacity, distributedprocessors (e.g., see Distributed AIRTPE below), mainframe, multi-core,parallel, and/or super-computer architectures may similarly be employed.Alternatively, should deployment requirements dictate greaterportability, smaller mobile devices (e.g., Personal Digital Assistants(PDAs)) may be employed.

Depending on the particular implementation, features of the AIRTPE maybe achieved by implementing a microcontroller such as CAST's® R8051XC2microcontroller; Intel's® MCS 51 (i.e., 8051 microcontroller); and/orthe like. Also, to implement certain features of the AIRTPE, somefeature implementations may rely on embedded components, such as:Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (“ASIC”), Digital SignalProcessing (“DSP”), Field Programmable Gate Array (“FPGA”), and/or thelike embedded technology. For example, any of the AIRTPE componentcollection (distributed or otherwise) and/or features may be implementedvia the microprocessor and/or via embedded components; e.g., via ASIC,coprocessor, DSP, FPGA, and/or the like. Alternately, someimplementations of the AIRTPE may be implemented with embeddedcomponents that are configured and used to achieve a variety of featuresor signal processing.

Depending on the particular implementation, the embedded components mayinclude software solutions, hardware solutions, and/or some combinationof both hardware/software solutions. For example, AIRTPE featuresdiscussed herein may be achieved through implementing FPGAs, which are asemiconductor devices containing programmable logic components called“logic blocks”, and programmable interconnects, such as the highperformance FPGA Virtex® series and/or the low cost Spartan® seriesmanufactured by Xilinx®. Logic blocks and interconnects can beprogrammed by the customer or designer, after the FPGA is manufactured,to implement any of the AIRTPE features. A hierarchy of programmableinterconnects allow logic blocks to be interconnected as needed by theAIRTPE system designer/administrator, somewhat like a one-chipprogrammable breadboard. An FPGA's logic blocks can be programmed toperform the operation of basic logic gates such as AND, and XOR, or morecomplex combinational operators such as decoders or mathematicaloperations. In most FPGAs, the logic blocks also include memoryelements, which may be circuit flip-flops or more complete blocks ofmemory. In some circumstances, the AIRTPE may be developed on FPGAs andthen migrated into a fixed version that more resembles ASICimplementations. Alternate or coordinating implementations may migrateAIRTPE controller features to a final ASIC instead of or in addition toFPGAs. Depending on the implementation all of the aforementionedembedded components and microprocessors may be considered the “CPU”and/or “processor” for the AIRTPE.

Power Source

The power source 1286 may be of any various form for powering smallelectronic circuit board devices such as the following power cells:alkaline, lithium hydride, lithium ion, lithium polymer, nickel cadmium,solar cells, and/or the like. Other types of AC or DC power sources maybe used as well. In the case of solar cells, in one embodiment, the caseprovides an aperture through which the solar cell may capture photonicenergy. The power cell 1286 is connected to at least one of theinterconnected subsequent components of the AIRTPE thereby providing anelectric current to all subsequent components. In one example, the powersource 1286 is connected to the system bus component 1204. In analternative embodiment, an outside power source 1286 is provided througha connection across the I/O 1208 interface. For example, a USB and/orIEEE 1394 connection carries both data and power across the connectionand is therefore a suitable source of power.

Interface Adapters

Interface bus(ses) 1207 may accept, connect, and/or communicate to anumber of interface adapters, variously although not necessarily in theform of adapter cards, such as but not limited to: input outputinterfaces (I/O) 1208, storage interfaces 1209, network interfaces 1210,and/or the like. Optionally, cryptographic processor interfaces 1227similarly may be connected to the interface bus. The interface busprovides for the communications of interface adapters with one anotheras well as with other components of the computer systemization.Interface adapters are adapted for a compatible interface bus. Interfaceadapters variously connect to the interface bus via a slot architecture.Various slot architectures may be employed, such as, but not limited to:Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), Card Bus, (Extended) Industry StandardArchitecture ((E)ISA), Micro Channel Architecture (MCA), NuBus,Peripheral Component Interconnect (Extended) (PCI(X)), PCI Express,Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA), and/orthe like.

Storage interfaces 1209 may accept, communicate, and/or connect to anumber of storage devices such as, but not limited to: storage devices1214, removable disc devices, and/or the like. Storage interfaces mayemploy connection protocols such as, but not limited to: (Ultra)(Serial) Advanced Technology Attachment (Packet Interface) ((Ultra)(Serial) ATA(PI)), (Enhanced) Integrated Drive Electronics ((E)IDE),Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1394, fiberchannel, Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI), Universal Serial Bus(USB), and/or the like.

Network interfaces 1210 may accept, communicate, and/or connect to acommunications network 1213. Through a communications network 1213, theAIRTPE controller is accessible through remote clients 1233 b (e.g.,computers with web browsers) by users 1233 a. Network interfaces mayemploy connection protocols such as, but not limited to: direct connect,Ethernet (thick, thin, twisted pair 10/100/1000/10000 Base T, and/or thelike), Token Ring, wireless connection such as IEEE 802.11a-x, and/orthe like. Should processing requirements dictate a greater amount speedand/or capacity, distributed network controllers (e.g., see DistributedAIRTPE below), architectures may similarly be employed to pool, loadbalance, and/or otherwise decrease/increase the communicative bandwidthrequired by the AIRTPE controller. A communications network may be anyone and/or the combination of the following: a direct interconnection;the Internet; Interplanetary Internet (e.g., Coherent File DistributionProtocol (CFDP), Space Communications Protocol Specifications (SCPS),etc.); a Local Area Network (LAN); a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN); anOperating Missions as Nodes on the Internet (OMNI); a secured customconnection; a Wide Area Network (WAN); a wireless network (e.g.,employing protocols such as, but not limited to a cellular, WiFi,Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), I-mode, and/or the like); and/orthe like. A network interface may be regarded as a specialized form ofan input output interface. Further, multiple network interfaces 1210 maybe used to engage with various communications network types 1213. Forexample, multiple network interfaces may be employed to allow for thecommunication over broadcast, multicast, and/or unicast networks.

Input Output interfaces (I/O) 1208 may accept, communicate, and/orconnect to user, peripheral devices 1212 (e.g., input devices 1211),cryptographic processor devices 1228, and/or the like. I/O may employconnection protocols such as, but not limited to: audio: analog,digital, monaural, RCA, stereo, and/or the like; data: Apple Desktop Bus(ADB), IEEE 1394a-b, serial, universal serial bus (USB); infrared;joystick; keyboard; midi; optical; PC AT; PS/2; parallel; radio; touchinterfaces: capacitive, optical, resistive, etc. displays; videointerface: Apple Desktop Connector (ADC), BNC, coaxial, component,composite, digital, Digital Visual Interface (DVI), (mini) displayport,high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI), RCA, RF antennae, S-Video,VGA, and/or the like; wireless transceivers: 802.11a/ac/b/g/n/x;Bluetooth; cellular (e.g., code division multiple access (CDMA), highspeed packet access (HSPA(+)), high-speed downlink packet access(HSDPA), global system for mobile communications (GSM), long termevolution (LTE), WiMax, etc.); and/or the like. One output device mayinclude a video display, which may comprise a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) orLiquid Crystal Display (LCD) based monitor with an interface (e.g., DVIcircuitry and cable) that accepts signals from a video interface, may beused. The video interface composites information generated by a computersystemization and generates video signals based on the compositedinformation in a video memory frame. Another output device is atelevision set, which accepts signals from a video interface. The videointerface provides the composited video information through a videoconnection interface that accepts a video display interface (e.g., anRCA composite video connector accepting an RCA composite video cable; aDVI connector accepting a DVI display cable, etc.).

Peripheral devices 1212 may be connected and/or communicate to I/Oand/or other facilities of the like such as network interfaces, storageinterfaces, directly to the interface bus, system bus, the CPU, and/orthe like. Peripheral devices may be external, internal and/or part ofthe AIRTPE controller. Peripheral devices may include: antenna, audiodevices (e.g., line-in, line-out, microphone input, speakers, etc.),cameras (e.g., gesture (e.g., Microsoft Kinect) detection, motiondetection, still, video, webcam, etc.), dongles (e.g., for copyprotection, ensuring secure transactions with a digital signature,and/or the like), external processors (for added capabilities; e.g.,crypto devices 528), force-feedback devices (e.g., vibrating motors),infrared (IR) transceiver, network interfaces, printers, scanners,sensors/sensor arrays and peripheral extensions (e.g., ambient light,GPS, gyroscopes, proximity, temperature, etc.), storage devices,transceivers (e.g., cellular, GPS, etc.), video devices (e.g., goggles,monitors, etc.), video sources, visors, and/or the like. Peripheraldevices often include types of input devices (e.g., cameras).

User input devices 1211 often are a type of peripheral device 512 (seeabove) and may include: card readers, dongles, finger print readers,gloves, graphics tablets, joysticks, keyboards, microphones, mouse(mice), remote controls, security/biometric devices (e.g., fingerprintreader, iris reader, retina reader, etc.), touch screens (e.g.,capacitive, resistive, etc.), trackballs, trackpads, styluses, and/orthe like.

It should be noted that although user input devices and peripheraldevices may be employed, the AIRTPE controller may be embodied as anembedded, dedicated, and/or monitor-less (i.e., headless) device,wherein access would be provided over a network interface connection.

Cryptographic units such as, but not limited to, microcontrollers,processors 1226, interfaces 1227, and/or devices 1228 may be attached,and/or communicate with the AIRTPE controller. A MC68HC16microcontroller, manufactured by Motorola, Inc.®, may be used for and/orwithin cryptographic units. The MC68HC16 microcontroller utilizes a16-bit multiply-and-accumulate instruction in the 16 MHz configurationand requires less than one second to perform a 512-bit RSA private keyoperation. Cryptographic units support the authentication ofcommunications from interacting agents, as well as allowing foranonymous transactions. Cryptographic units may also be configured aspart of the CPU. Equivalent microcontrollers and/or processors may alsobe used. Other specialized cryptographic processors include: Broadcom's®CryptoNetX and other Security Processors; nCipher's® nShield; SafeNet's®Luna PCI (e.g., 7100) series; Semaphore Communications'® 40 MHzRoadrunner 184; Sun's® Cryptographic Accelerators (e.g., Accelerator6000 PCIe Board, Accelerator 500 Daughtercard); Via Nano® Processor(e.g., L2100, L2200, U2400) line, which is capable of performing 500+MB/s of cryptographic instructions; VLSI Technology's® 33 MHz 6868;and/or the like.

Memory

Generally, any mechanization and/or embodiment allowing a processor toaffect the storage and/or retrieval of information is regarded as memory1229. However, memory is a fungible technology and resource, thus, anynumber of memory embodiments may be employed in lieu of or in concertwith one another. It is to be understood that the AIRTPE controllerand/or a computer systemization may employ various forms of memory 1229.For example, a computer systemization may be configured wherein theoperation of on-chip CPU memory (e.g., registers), RAM, ROM, and anyother storage devices are provided by a paper punch tape or paper punchcard mechanism; however, such an embodiment would result in an extremelyslow rate of operation. In one configuration, memory 1229 will includeROM 1206, RAM 1205, and a storage device 1214. A storage device 1214 maybe any various computer system storage. Storage devices may include: anarray of devices (e.g., Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)); adrum; a (fixed and/or removable) magnetic disk drive; a magneto-opticaldrive; an optical drive (i.e., Blueray, CD ROM/RAM/Recordable(R)/ReWritable (RW), DVD R/RW, HD DVD R/RW etc.); RAM drives; solidstate memory devices (USB memory, solid state drives (SSD), etc.); otherprocessor-readable storage mediums; and/or other devices of the like.Thus, a computer systemization generally requires and makes use ofmemory.

Component Collection

The memory 1229 may contain a collection of program and/or databasecomponents and/or data such as, but not limited to: operating systemcomponent(s) 1215 (operating system); information server component(s)1216 (information server); user interface component(s) 1217 (userinterface); Web browser component(s) 1218 (Web browser); database(s)1219; mail server component(s) 1221; mail client component(s) 1222;cryptographic server component(s) 1220 (cryptographic server); theAIRTPE component(s) 1235; and/or the like (i.e., collectively acomponent collection). These components may be stored and accessed fromthe storage devices and/or from storage devices accessible through aninterface bus. Although unconventional program components such as thosein the component collection may be stored in a local storage device1214, they may also be loaded and/or stored in memory such as:peripheral devices, RAM, remote storage facilities through acommunications network, ROM, various forms of memory, and/or the like.

Operating System

The operating system component 1215 is an executable program componentfacilitating the operation of the AIRTPE controller. The operatingsystem may facilitate access of I/O, network interfaces, peripheraldevices, storage devices, and/or the like. The operating system may be ahighly fault tolerant, scalable, and secure system such as: Apple'sMacintosh OS X (Server) and macOS®; AT&T Plan 9®; Be OS®; Blackberry'sQNX®; Google's Chrome®; Microsoft's Windows® 7/8/10; Unix and Unix-likesystem distributions (such as AT&T's UNIX®; Berkley SoftwareDistribution (BSD)® variations such as FreeBSD®, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and/orthe like; Linux distributions such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, and/or the like);and/or the like operating systems. However, more limited and/or lesssecure operating systems also may be employed such as Apple MacintoshOS® (i.e., versions 1-9), IBM OS/2®, Microsoft DOS®, Microsoft Windows2000/2003/3.1/95/98/CE/Millenium/Mobile/NT/Vista/XP (Server)®, Palm OS®,and/or the like. Additionally, for robust mobile deploymentapplications, mobile operating systems may be used, such as: Apple'siOS®; China Operating System COS®; Google's Android®; Microsoft WindowsRT/Phone®; Palm's WebOS®; Samsung/Intel's Tizen®; and/or the like. Anoperating system may communicate to and/or with other components in acomponent collection, including itself, and/or the like. Mostfrequently, the operating system communicates with other programcomponents, user interfaces, and/or the like. For example, the operatingsystem may contain, communicate, generate, obtain, and/or provideprogram component, system, user, and/or data communications, requests,and/or responses. The operating system, once executed by the CPU, mayenable the interaction with communications networks, data, I/O,peripheral devices, program components, memory, user input devices,and/or the like. The operating system may provide communicationsprotocols that allow the AIRTPE controller to communicate with otherentities through a communications network 1213. Various communicationprotocols may be used by the AIRTPE controller as a subcarrier transportmechanism for interaction, such as, but not limited to: multicast,TCP/IP, UDP, unicast, and/or the like.

Information Server

An information server component 1216 is a stored program component thatis executed by a CPU. The information server may be an Internetinformation server such as, but not limited to Apache SoftwareFoundation's Apache, Microsoft's Internet Information Server, and/or thelike. The information server may allow for the execution of programcomponents through facilities such as Active Server Page (ASP), ActiveX,(ANSI) (Objective−) C (++), C# and/or .NET, Common Gateway Interface(CGI) scripts, dynamic (D) hypertext markup language (HTML), FLASH,Java, JavaScript, Practical Extraction Report Language (PERL), HypertextPre-Processor (PHP), pipes, Python, wireless application protocol (WAP),WebObjects®, and/or the like. The information server may support securecommunications protocols such as, but not limited to, File TransferProtocol (FTP); HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP); Secure HypertextTransfer Protocol (HTTPS), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), messagingprotocols (e.g., America Online (AOL) Instant Messenger (AIM)®,Application Exchange (APEX), ICQ, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), MicrosoftNetwork (MSN) Messenger® Service, Presence and Instant MessagingProtocol (PRIM), Internet Engineering Task Force's® (IETF's) SessionInitiation Protocol (SIP), SIP for Instant Messaging and PresenceLeveraging Extensions (SIMPLE), open XML-based Extensible Messaging andPresence Protocol (XMPP) (i.e., Jabber® or Open Mobile Alliance's(OMA's) Instant Messaging and Presence Service (IMPS)), Yahoo! InstantMessenger® Service, and/or the like. The information server providesresults in the form of Web pages to Web browsers, and allows for themanipulated generation of the Web pages through interaction with otherprogram components. After a Domain Name System (DNS) resolution portionof an HTTP request is resolved to a particular information server, theinformation server resolves requests for information at specifiedlocations on the AIRTPE controller based on the remainder of the HTTPrequest. For example, a request such ashttp://123.124.125.126/myInformation.html might have the IP portion ofthe request “123.124.125.126” resolved by a DNS server to an informationserver at that IP address; that information server might in turn furtherparse the http request for the “/myInformation.html” portion of therequest and resolve it to a location in memory containing theinformation “myInformation.html.” Additionally, other informationserving protocols may be employed across various ports, e.g., FTPcommunications across port 21, and/or the like. An information servermay communicate to and/or with other components in a componentcollection, including itself, and/or facilities of the like. Mostfrequently, the information server communicates with the AIRTPE database1219, operating systems, other program components, user interfaces, Webbrowsers, and/or the like.

Access to the AIRTPE database may be achieved through a number ofdatabase bridge mechanisms such as through scripting languages asenumerated below (e.g., CGI) and through inter-application communicationchannels as enumerated below (e.g., CORBA, WebObjects, etc.). Any datarequests through a Web browser are parsed through the bridge mechanisminto appropriate grammars as required by the AIRTPE. In one embodiment,the information server would provide a Web form accessible by a Webbrowser. Entries made into supplied fields in the Web form are tagged ashaving been entered into the particular fields, and parsed as such. Theentered terms are then passed along with the field tags, which act toinstruct the parser to generate queries directed to appropriate tablesand/or fields. In one embodiment, the parser may generate queries in SQLby instantiating a search string with the proper join/select commandsbased on the tagged text entries, wherein the resulting command isprovided over the bridge mechanism to the AIRTPE as a query. Upongenerating query results from the query, the results are passed over thebridge mechanism, and may be parsed for formatting and generation of anew results Web page by the bridge mechanism. Such a new results Webpage is then provided to the information server, which may supply it tothe requesting Web browser.

Also, an information server may contain, communicate, generate, obtain,and/or provide program component, system, user, and/or datacommunications, requests, and/or responses.

User Interface

Computer interfaces in some respects are similar to automobile operationinterfaces. Automobile operation interface elements such as steeringwheels, gearshifts, and speedometers facilitate the access, operation,and display of automobile resources, and status. Computer interactioninterface elements such as buttons, check boxes, cursors, menus,scrollers, and windows (collectively referred to as widgets) similarlyfacilitate the access, capabilities, operation, and display of data andcomputer hardware and operating system resources, and status. Operationinterfaces are called user interfaces. Graphical user interfaces (GUIs)such as the Apple's iOS®, Macintosh Operating System's Aqua®; IBM'sOS/2®; Google's Chrome® (e.g., and other web browser/cloud based clientOSs); Microsoft's Windows® varied UIs2000/2003/3.1/95/98/CE/Millenium/Mobile/NT/Vista/XP (Server) (i.e.,Aero, Surface, etc.); Unix's X-Windows (e.g., which may includeadditional Unix graphic interface libraries and layers such as K DesktopEnvironment (KDE), mythTV and GNU Network Object Model Environment(GNOME)), web interface libraries (e.g., ActiveX, AJAX, (D)HTML, FLASH,Java, JavaScript, etc. interface libraries such as, but not limited to,Dojo, jQuery(UI), MooTools, Prototype, script.aculo.us, SWFObject,Yahoo! User Interface®, any of which may be used and) provide a baselineand means of accessing and displaying information graphically to users.

A user interface component 1217 is a stored program component that isexecuted by a CPU. The user interface may be a graphic user interface asprovided by, with, and/or atop operating systems and/or operatingenvironments such as already discussed. The user interface may allow forthe display, execution, interaction, manipulation, and/or operation ofprogram components and/or system facilities through textual and/orgraphical facilities. The user interface provides a facility throughwhich users may affect, interact, and/or operate a computer system. Auser interface may communicate to and/or with other components in acomponent collection, including itself, and/or facilities of the like.Most frequently, the user interface communicates with operating systems,other program components, and/or the like. The user interface maycontain, communicate, generate, obtain, and/or provide programcomponent, system, user, and/or data communications, requests, and/orresponses.

Web Browser

A Web browser component 1218 is a stored program component that isexecuted by a CPU. The Web browser may be a hypertext viewingapplication such as Apple's (mobile) Safari®, Google's Chrome®,Microsoft Internet Explorer®, Mozilla's Firefox®, Netscape Navigator®,and/or the like. Secure Web browsing may be supplied with 128 bit (orgreater) encryption by way of HTTPS, SSL, and/or the like. Web browsersallowing for the execution of program components through facilities suchas ActiveX, AJAX, (D)HTML, FLASH, Java, JavaScript, web browser plug-inAPIs (e.g., FireFox®, Safari® Plug-in, and/or the like APIs), and/or thelike. Web browsers and like information access tools may be integratedinto PDAs, cellular telephones, and/or other mobile devices. A Webbrowser may communicate to and/or with other components in a componentcollection, including itself, and/or facilities of the like. Mostfrequently, the Web browser communicates with information servers,operating systems, integrated program components (e.g., plug-ins),and/or the like; e.g., it may contain, communicate, generate, obtain,and/or provide program component, system, user, and/or datacommunications, requests, and/or responses. Also, in place of a Webbrowser and information server, a combined application may be developedto perform similar operations of both. The combined application wouldsimilarly affect the obtaining and the provision of information tousers, user agents, and/or the like from the AIRTPE enabled nodes. Thecombined application may be nugatory on systems employing Web browsers.

Mail Server

A mail server component 1221 is a stored program component that isexecuted by a CPU 1203. The mail server may be an Internet mail serversuch as, but not limited to: dovecot, Courier IMAP, Cyrus IMAP, Maildir,Microsoft Exchange, sendmail, and/or the like. The mail server may allowfor the execution of program components through facilities such as ASP,ActiveX, (ANSI) (Objective−) C (++), C# and/or .NET, CGI scripts, Java,JavaScript, PERL, PHP, pipes, Python, WebObjects®, and/or the like. Themail server may support communications protocols such as, but notlimited to: Internet message access protocol (IMAP), MessagingApplication Programming Interface (MAPI)/Microsoft Exchange, post officeprotocol (POPS), simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP), and/or the like.The mail server can route, forward, and process incoming and outgoingmail messages that have been sent, relayed and/or otherwise traversingthrough and/or to the AIRTPE. Alternatively, the mail server componentmay be distributed out to mail service providing entities such asGoogle's® cloud services (e.g., Gmail and notifications mayalternatively be provided via messenger services such as AOL's InstantMessenger®, Apple's iMessage®, Google Messenger®, SnapChat®, etc.).

Access to the AIRTPE mail may be achieved through a number of APIsoffered by the individual Web server components and/or the operatingsystem.

Also, a mail server may contain, communicate, generate, obtain, and/orprovide program component, system, user, and/or data communications,requests, information, and/or responses.

Mail Client

A mail client component 1222 is a stored program component that isexecuted by a CPU 1203. The mail client may be a mail viewingapplication such as Apple Mail®, Microsoft Entourage®, MicrosoftOutlook®, Microsoft Outlook Express®, Mozilla®, Thunderbird®, and/or thelike. Mail clients may support a number of transfer protocols, such as:IMAP, Microsoft Exchange, POPS, SMTP, and/or the like. A mail client maycommunicate to and/or with other components in a component collection,including itself, and/or facilities of the like. Most frequently, themail client communicates with mail servers, operating systems, othermail clients, and/or the like; e.g., it may contain, communicate,generate, obtain, and/or provide program component, system, user, and/ordata communications, requests, information, and/or responses. Generally,the mail client provides a facility to compose and transmit electronicmail messages.

Cryptographic Server

A cryptographic server component 1220 is a stored program component thatis executed by a CPU 1203, cryptographic processor 1226, cryptographicprocessor interface 1227, cryptographic processor device 1228, and/orthe like. Cryptographic processor interfaces will allow for expeditionof encryption and/or decryption requests by the cryptographic component;however, the cryptographic component, alternatively, may run on a CPU.The cryptographic component allows for the encryption and/or decryptionof provided data. The cryptographic component allows for both symmetricand asymmetric (e.g., Pretty Good Protection (PGP)) encryption and/ordecryption. The cryptographic component may employ cryptographictechniques such as, but not limited to: digital certificates (e.g.,X.509 authentication framework), digital signatures, dual signatures,enveloping, password access protection, public key management, and/orthe like. The cryptographic component will facilitate numerous(encryption and/or decryption) security protocols such as, but notlimited to: checksum, Data Encryption Standard (DES), Elliptical CurveEncryption (ECC), International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA),Message Digest 5 (MD 5, which is a one way hash operation), passwords,Rivest Cipher (RC5), Rijndael, RSA (which is an Internet encryption andauthentication system that uses an algorithm developed in 1977 by RonRivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman), Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA),Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS),Transport Layer Security (TLS), and/or the like. Employing suchencryption security protocols, the AIRTPE may encrypt all incomingand/or outgoing communications and may serve as node within a virtualprivate network (VPN) with a wider communications network. Thecryptographic component facilitates the process of “securityauthorization” whereby access to a resource is inhibited by a securityprotocol wherein the cryptographic component effects authorized accessto the secured resource. In addition, the cryptographic component mayprovide unique identifiers of content, e.g., employing and MD5 hash toobtain a unique signature for a digital audio file. A cryptographiccomponent may communicate to and/or with other components in a componentcollection, including itself, and/or facilities of the like. Thecryptographic component supports encryption schemes allowing for thesecure transmission of information across a communications network toallow the AIRTPE component to engage in secure transactions if sodesired. The cryptographic component facilitates the secure accessing ofresources on the AIRTPE and facilitates the access of secured resourceson remote systems; i.e., it may act as a client and/or server of securedresources. Most frequently, the cryptographic component communicateswith information servers, operating systems, other program components,and/or the like. The cryptographic component may contain, communicate,generate, obtain, and/or provide program component, system, user, and/ordata communications, requests, and/or responses.

The AIRTPE Database

The AIRTPE database component 1219 may be embodied in a database and itsstored data. The database is a stored program component, which isexecuted by the CPU; the stored program component portion configuringthe CPU to process the stored data. The database may be a faulttolerant, relational, scalable, secure database such as MySQL®, Oracle®,Sybase®, etc. may be used. Additionally, optimized fast memory anddistributed databases such as IBM's Netezza®, MongoDB's MongoDB®,opensource Hadoop®, opensource VoltDB, SAP's Hana®, etc. Relationaldatabases are an extension of a flat file. Relational databases consistof a series of related tables. The tables are interconnected via a keyfield. Use of the key field allows the combination of the tables byindexing against the key field; i.e., the key fields act as dimensionalpivot points for combining information from various tables.Relationships generally identify links maintained between tables bymatching primary keys. Primary keys represent fields that uniquelyidentify the rows of a table in a relational database. Alternative keyfields may be used from any of the fields having unique value sets, andin some alternatives, even non-unique values in combinations with otherfields. More precisely, they uniquely identify rows of a table on the“one” side of a one-to-many relationship.

Alternatively, the AIRTPE database may be implemented using variousother data-structures, such as an array, hash, (linked) list, struct,structured text file (e.g., XML), table, and/or the like. Suchdata-structures may be stored in memory and/or in (structured) files. Inanother alternative, an object-oriented database may be used, such asFrontier™, ObjectStore, Poet, Zope, and/or the like. Object databasescan include a number of object collections that are grouped and/orlinked together by common attributes; they may be related to otherobject collections by some common attributes. Object-oriented databasesperform similarly to relational databases with the exception thatobjects are not just pieces of data but may have other types ofcapabilities encapsulated within a given object. If the AIRTPE databaseis implemented as a data-structure, the use of the AIRTPE database 1219may be integrated into another component such as the AIRTPE component1235. Also, the database may be implemented as a mix of data structures,objects, and relational structures. Databases may be consolidated and/ordistributed in countless variations (e.g., see Distributed AIRTPEbelow). Portions of databases, e.g., tables, may be exported and/orimported and thus decentralized and/or integrated.

In one embodiment, the database component 1219 includes several tables1219 a-z:

An accounts table 1219 a includes fields such as, but not limited to: anaccountID, accountOwnerID, accountContactID, assetIDs, deviceIDs,paymentIDs, transactionIDs, userIDs, accountType (e.g., agent, entity(e.g., corporate, non-profit, partnership, etc.), individual, etc.),accountCreationDate, accountUpdateDate, accountName, accountNumber,routingNumber, linkWalletsID, accountPrioritAccaountRatio,accountAddress, accountState, accountZIPcode, accountCountry,accountEmail, accountPhone, accountAuthKey, accountIPaddress,accountURLAccessCode, accountPortNo, accountAuthorizationCode,accountAccessPrivileges, accountPreferences, accountRestrictions, and/orthe like;

A users table 1219 b includes fields such as, but not limited to: auserID, userSSN, taxID, userContactID, accountID, assetIDs, deviceIDs,paymentIDs, transactionIDs, userType (e.g., agent, entity (e.g.,corporate, non-profit, partnership, etc.), individual, etc.),namePrefix, firstName, middleName, lastName, nameSuffix, DateOfBirth,userAge, userName, userEmail, userSocialAccountlD, contactType,contactRelationship, userPhone, userAddress, userCity, userState,userZIPCode, userCountry, userAuthorizationCode, userAccessPrivilges,userPreferences, userRestrictions, and/or the like (the user table maysupport and/or track multiple entity accounts on a AIRTPE);

An devices table 1219 c includes fields such as, but not limited to:deviceID, sensorIDs, accountID, assetIDs, paymentIDs, deviceType,deviceName, deviceManufacturer, deviceModel, deviceVersion,deviceSerialNo, deviceIPaddress, deviceMACaddress, device_ECID,deviceUUID, deviceLocation, deviceCertificate, deviceOS, appIDs,deviceResources, deviceVersion, authKey, deviceSecureKey,walletAppInstalledFlag, deviceAccessPrivileges, devicePreferences,deviceRestrictions, hardware_config, software_config, storage_location,sensor_value, pin_reading, data_length, channel_requirement,sensor_name, sensor_model_no, sensor_manufacturer, sensor_type,sensor_serial_number, sensor_power_requirement,device_power_requirement, location, sensor_associated_tool,sensor_dimensions, device_dimensions, sensor_communications_type,device_communications_type, power_percentage, power_condition,temperature_setting, speed_adjust, hold_duration, part_actuation, and/orthe like. Device table may, in some embodiments, include fieldscorresponding to one or more Bluetooth profiles, such as those publishedat https://www.bluetooth.org/en-us/specification/adopted-specifications,and/or other device specifications, and/or the like;

An apps table 1219 d includes fields such as, but not limited to: appID,appName, appType, appDependencies, accountID, deviceIDs, transactionID,userID, appStoreAuthKey, appStoreAccountID, appStoreIPaddress,appStoreURLaccessCode, appStorePortNo, appAccessPrivileges,appPreferences, appRestrictions, portNum, access_API_call,linked_wallets_list, and/or the like;

An assets table 1219 e includes fields such as, but not limited to:assetID, accountID, userID, distributorAccountID, distributorPaymentID,distributorOnwerID, assetOwnerID, assetType, assetSourceDeviceID,assetSourceDeviceType, assetSourceDeviceName,assetSourceDistributionChannelID, assetSourceDistributionChannelType,assetSourceDistributionChannelName, assetTargetChannelID,assetTargetChannelType, assetTargetChannelName, assetName,assetSeriesName, assetSeriesSeason, assetSeriesEpisode, assetCode,assetQuantity, assetCost, assetPrice, assetValue, assetManufactuer,assetModelNo, assetSerialNo, assetLocation, assetAddress, assetState,assetZIPcode, assetState, assetCountry, assetEmail, assetIPaddress,assetURLaccessCode, assetOwnerAccountID, subscriptionIDs,assetAuthroizationCode, assetAccessPrivileges, assetPreferences,assetRestrictions, assetAPI, assetAPIconnectionAddress, and/or the like;

A payments table 1219 f includes fields such as, but not limited to:paymentID, accountID, userID, couponID, couponValue, couponConditions,couponExpiration, paymentType, paymentAccountNo, paymentAccountName,paymentAccountAuthorizationCodes, paymentExpirationDate, paymentCCV,paymentRoutingNo, paymentRoutingType, paymentAddress, paymentState,paymentZIPcode, paymentCountry, paymentEmail, paymentAuthKey,paymentIPaddress, paymentURLaccessCode, paymentPortNo,paymentAccessPrivileges, paymentPreferences, payementRestrictions,and/or the like;

An transactions table 1219 g includes fields such as, but not limitedto: transactionID, accountID, assetIDs, deviceIDs, paymentIDs,transactionIDs, userID, merchantID, transactionType, transactionDate,transactionTime, transactionAmount, transactionQuantity,transactionDetails, productsList, productType, productTitle,productsSummary, productParamsList, transactionNo,transactionAccessPrivileges, transactionPreferences,transactionRestrictions, merchantAuthKey, merchantAuthCode, and/or thelike;

An merchants table 1219 h includes fields such as, but not limited to:merchantID, merchantTaxID, merchanteName, merchantContactUserID,accountID, issuerID, acquirerID, merchantEmail, merchantAddress,merchantState, merchantZIPcode, merchantCountry, merchantAuthKey,merchantIPaddress, portNum, merchantURLaccessCode, merchantPortNo,merchantAccessPrivileges, merchantPreferences, merchantRestrictions,and/or the like;

An ads table 1219 i includes fields such as, but not limited to: adID,advertiserID, adMerchantID, adNetworkID, adName, adTags, advertiserName,adSponsor, adTime, adGeo, adAttributes, adFormat, adProduct, adText,adMedia, adMediaID, adChannelID, adTagTime, adAudioSignature, adHash,adTemplateID, adTemplateData, adSourceID, adSourceName,adSourceServerIP, adSourceURL, adSourceSecurityProtocol, adSourceFTP,adAuthKey, adAccessPrivileges, adPreferences, adRestrictions,adNetworkXchangeID, adNetworkXchangeName, adNetworkXchangeCost,adNetworkXchangeMetricType (e.g., CPA, CPC, CPM, CTR, etc.),adNetworkXchangeMetricValue, adNetworkXchangeServer,adNetworkXchangePortNumber, publisheriD, publisherAddress, publisherURL,publisherTag, publisherIndus try, publisherName, publisherDescription,siteDomain, siteURL, siteContent, siteTag, siteContext, siteImpression,siteVisits, siteHeadline, sitePage, siteAdPrice, sitePlacement,sitePosition, bidID, bidExchange, bidOS, bidTarget, bidTimestamp,bidPrice, bidImpressionID, bidType, bidScore, adType (e.g., mobile,desktop, wearable, largescreen, interstitial, etc.), assetID,merchantID, deviceID, userID, accountID, impressionID, impressionOS,impressionTimeStamp, impressionGeo, impressionAction, impressionType,impressionPublisherID, impressionPublisherURL, and/or the like;

A prediction logics table 1219 j includes fields such as, but notlimited to: predictionLogicID, predictionLogicConfiguration,labeledTradeTickData, trainingSetConfiguration, testingSetConfiguration,ML_TechniqueConfiguration, and/or the like;

A market_data table 1219 z includes fields such as, but not limited to:market_data_feed_ID, asset_ID, asset_symbol, asset_name, spot_price,bid_price, ask_price, and/or the like; in one embodiment, the marketdata table is populated through a market data feed (e.g., Bloomberg'sPhatPipe®, Consolidated Quote System® (CQS), Consolidated TapeAssociation® (CTA), Consolidated Tape System® (CTS), Dun & Bradstreet®,OTC Montage Data Feed® (OMDF), Reuter's Tib®, Triarch®, US equity tradeand quote market data®, Unlisted Trading Privileges® (UTP) Trade DataFeed® (UTDF), UTP Quotation Data Feed® (UQDF), and/or the like feeds,e.g., via ITC 2.1 and/or respective feed protocols), for example,through Microsoft's® Active Template Library and Dealing ObjectTechnology's real-time toolkit Rtt.Multi.

In one embodiment, the AIRTPE database may interact with other databasesystems. For example, employing a distributed database system, queriesand data access by search AIRTPE component may treat the combination ofthe AIRTPE database, an integrated data security layer database as asingle database entity (e.g., see Distributed AIRTPE below).

In one embodiment, user programs may contain various user interfaceprimitives, which may serve to update the AIRTPE. Also, various accountsmay require custom database tables depending upon the environments andthe types of clients the AIRTPE may need to serve. It should be notedthat any unique fields may be designated as a key field throughout. Inan alternative embodiment, these tables have been decentralized intotheir own databases and their respective database controllers (i.e.,individual database controllers for each of the above tables). Employingvarious data processing techniques, one may further distribute thedatabases over several computer systemizations and/or storage devices.Similarly, configurations of the decentralized database controllers maybe varied by consolidating and/or distributing the various databasecomponents 1219 a-z. The AIRTPE may be configured to keep track ofvarious settings, inputs, and parameters via database controllers.

The AIRTPE database may communicate to and/or with other components in acomponent collection, including itself, and/or facilities of the like.Most frequently, the AIRTPE database communicates with the AIRTPEcomponent, other program components, and/or the like. The database maycontain, retain, and provide information regarding other nodes and data.

The AIRTPEs

The AIRTPE component 1235 is a stored program component that is executedby a CPU. In one embodiment, the AIRTPE component incorporates anyand/or all combinations of the aspects of the AIRTPE that was discussedin the previous figures. As such, the AIRTPE affects accessing,obtaining and the provision of information, services, transactions,and/or the like across various communications networks. The features andembodiments of the AIRTPE discussed herein increase network efficiencyby reducing data transfer requirements the use of more efficient datastructures and mechanisms for their transfer and storage. As aconsequence, more data may be transferred in less time, and latencieswith regard to transactions, are also reduced. In many cases, suchreduction in storage, transfer time, bandwidth requirements, latencies,etc., will reduce the capacity and structural infrastructurerequirements to support the AIRTPE's features and facilities, and inmany cases reduce the costs, energy consumption/requirements, and extendthe life of AIRTPE's underlying infrastructure; this has the addedbenefit of making the AIRTPE more reliable. Similarly, many of thefeatures and mechanisms are designed to be easier for users to use andaccess, thereby broadening the audience that may enjoy/employ andexploit the feature sets of the AIRTPE; such ease of use also helps toincrease the reliability of the AIRTPE. In addition, the feature setsinclude heightened security as noted via the Cryptographic components1220, 1226, 1228 and throughout, making access to the features and datamore reliable and secure

The AIRTPE transforms machine learning training input, order placementinput inputs, via AIRTPE components (e.g., MLT, TTM), into machinelearning training output, order placement output, information leakagealert outputs.

The AIRTPE component enabling access of information between nodes may bedeveloped by employing various development tools and languages such as,but not limited to: Apache® components, Assembly, ActiveX, binaryexecutables, (ANSI) (Objective−) C (++), C# and/or .NET, databaseadapters, CGI scripts, Java, JavaScript, mapping tools, procedural andobject oriented development tools, PERL, PHP, Python, shell scripts, SQLcommands, web application server extensions, web developmentenvironments and libraries (e.g., Microsoft's® ActiveX; Adobe® AIR, FLEX& FLASH; AJAX; (D)HTML; Dojo, Java; JavaScript; jQuery(UI); MooTools;Prototype; script.aculo.us; Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP);SWFObject; Yahoo!® User Interface; and/or the like), WebObjects®, and/orthe like. In one embodiment, the AIRTPE server employs a cryptographicserver to encrypt and decrypt communications. The AIRTPE component maycommunicate to and/or with other components in a component collection,including itself, and/or facilities of the like. Most frequently, theAIRTPE component communicates with the AIRTPE database, operatingsystems, other program components, and/or the like. The AIRTPE maycontain, communicate, generate, obtain, and/or provide programcomponent, system, user, and/or data communications, requests, and/orresponses.

Distributed AIRTPEs

The structure and/or operation of any of the AIRTPE node controllercomponents may be combined, consolidated, and/or distributed in anynumber of ways to facilitate development and/or deployment. Similarly,the component collection may be combined in any number of ways tofacilitate deployment and/or development. To accomplish this, one mayintegrate the components into a common code base or in a facility thatcan dynamically load the components on demand in an integrated fashion.As such a combination of hardware may be distributed within a location,within a region and/or globally where logical access to a controller maybe abstracted as a singular node, yet where a multitude of private,semiprivate and publicly accessible node controllers (e.g., viadispersed data centers) are coordinated to serve requests (e.g.,providing private cloud, semi-private cloud, and public cloud computingresources) and allowing for the serving of such requests in discreteregions (e.g., isolated, local, regional, national, global cloudaccess).

The component collection may be consolidated and/or distributed incountless variations through various data processing and/or developmenttechniques. Multiple instances of any one of the program components inthe program component collection may be instantiated on a single node,and/or across numerous nodes to improve performance throughload-balancing and/or data-processing techniques. Furthermore, singleinstances may also be distributed across multiple controllers and/orstorage devices; e.g., databases. All program component instances andcontrollers working in concert may do so through various data processingcommunication techniques.

The configuration of the AIRTPE controller will depend on the context ofsystem deployment. Factors such as, but not limited to, the budget,capacity, location, and/or use of the underlying hardware resources mayaffect deployment requirements and configuration. Regardless of if theconfiguration results in more consolidated and/or integrated programcomponents, results in a more distributed series of program components,and/or results in some combination between a consolidated anddistributed configuration, data may be communicated, obtained, and/orprovided. Instances of components consolidated into a common code basefrom the program component collection may communicate, obtain, and/orprovide data. This may be accomplished through intra-application dataprocessing communication techniques such as, but not limited to: datareferencing (e.g., pointers), internal messaging, object instancevariable communication, shared memory space, variable passing, and/orthe like. For example, cloud services such as Amazon Data Services®,Microsoft Azure®, Hewlett Packard Helion®, IBM® Cloud services allow forAIRTPE controller and/or AIRTPE component collections to be hosted infull or partially for varying degrees of scale.

If component collection components are discrete, separate, and/orexternal to one another, then communicating, obtaining, and/or providingdata with and/or to other component components may be accomplishedthrough inter-application data processing communication techniques suchas, but not limited to: Application Program Interfaces (API) informationpassage; (distributed) Component Object Model ((D)COM), (Distributed)Object Linking and Embedding ((D)OLE), and/or the like), Common ObjectRequest Broker Architecture (CORBA), Jini local and remote applicationprogram interfaces, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Remote MethodInvocation (RAE), SOAP, process pipes, shared files, and/or the like.Messages sent between discrete component components forinter-application communication or within memory spaces of a singularcomponent for intra-application communication may be facilitated throughthe creation and parsing of a grammar. A grammar may be developed byusing development tools such as lex, yacc, XML, and/or the like, whichallow for grammar generation and parsing capabilities, which in turn mayform the basis of communication messages within and between components.

For example, a grammar may be arranged to recognize the tokens of anHTTP post command, e.g.:

w3c-post http:// . . . Value1

where Value1 is discerned as being a parameter because “http://” is partof the grammar syntax, and what follows is considered part of the postvalue. Similarly, with such a grammar, a variable “Value1” may beinserted into an “http://” post command and then sent. The grammarsyntax itself may be presented as structured data that is interpretedand/or otherwise used to generate the parsing mechanism (e.g., a syntaxdescription text file as processed by lex, yacc, etc.). Also, once theparsing mechanism is generated and/or instantiated, it itself mayprocess and/or parse structured data such as, but not limited to:character (e.g., tab) delineated text, HTML, structured text streams,XML, and/or the like structured data. In another embodiment,inter-application data processing protocols themselves may haveintegrated parsers (e.g., JSON, SOAP, and/or like parsers) that may beemployed to parse (e.g., communications) data. Further, the parsinggrammar may be used beyond message parsing, but may also be used toparse: databases, data collections, data stores, structured data, and/orthe like. Again, the desired configuration will depend upon the context,environment, and requirements of system deployment.

For example, in some implementations, the AIRTPE controller may beexecuting a PHP script implementing a Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”)socket server via the information server, which listens to incomingcommunications on a server port to which a client may send data, e.g.,data encoded in JSON format. Upon identifying an incoming communication,the PHP script may read the incoming message from the client device,parse the received JSON-encoded text data to extract information fromthe JSON-encoded text data into PHP script variables, and store the data(e.g., client identifying information, etc.) and/or extractedinformation in a relational database accessible using the StructuredQuery Language (“SQL”). An exemplary listing, written substantially inthe form of PHP/SQL commands, to accept JSON-encoded input data from aclient device via an SSL connection, parse the data to extractvariables, and store the data to a database, is provided below:

<?PHP header(′Content-Type: text/plain′); // set ip address and port tolisten to for incoming data $address = ‘192.168.0.100’; $port = 255; //create a server-side SSL socket, listen for/accept incomingcommunication $sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);socket_bind($sock, $address, $port) or die(‘Could not bind to address');socket_listen($sock); $client = socket_accept($sock); // read input datafrom client device in 1024 byte blocks until end of message do { $input= “” $input = socket_read($client, 1024); $data .= $input; }while($input != “”); // parse data to extract variables $obj =json_decode($data, true); // store input data in a databasemysql_connect(″201.408.185.132″,$DBserver,$password); // access databaseserver mysql_select(″CLIENT_DB.SQL″); // select database to appendmysql_query(“INSERT INTO UserTable (transmission) VALUES ($data)”); //add data to UserTable table in a CLIENT databasemysql_close(″CLIENT_DB.SQL″); // close connection to database ?>

Also, the following resources may be used to provide example embodimentsregarding SOAP parser implementation:

-   -   http://www.xay.com/perl/site/lib/SOAP/Parser.html    -   http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.IBMDI.doc/referenceguide295.htm        and other parser implementations:    -   http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.IBMDI.doc/referenceguide259.htm        all of which are hereby expressly incorporated by reference.

Additional embodiments may include:

-   1. An artificial intelligence-based information leakage alert    generating apparatus, comprising:-   a memory;-   a component collection in the memory, including:

a trade tick monitoring component;

-   a processor disposed in communication with the memory, and    configured to issue a plurality of processing instructions from the    component collection stored in the memory,

wherein the processor issues instructions from the trade tick monitoringcomponent, stored in the memory, to:

-   -   obtain, via at least one processor, an order placement        datastructure, wherein the order placement datastructure        includes a security identifier and a trading algorithm        identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, an order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on a trading        algorithm associated with the trading algorithm identifier;    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a first order specified by the order placement        allocation to a server associated with a first venue specified        by the order placement allocation for the first order;    -   obtain, via at least one processor, a set of trade tick data        messages associated with the first venue, wherein the set of        trade tick data messages pertains to the security identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, a set of inferred labels        for each obtained trade tick data message using a real-time        prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;    -   select, via at least one processor, an inferred label type;    -   group, via at least one processor, the determined inferred        labels of the selected inferred label type for the set of trade        tick data messages into specified buckets;    -   determine, via at least one processor, that the grouped inferred        labels correspond to execution data generated by the first        order; and    -   generate, via at least one processor, an information leakage        alert for the selected inferred label type.

-   2. The apparatus of embodiment 1, wherein the order placement    allocation specifies a plurality of orders to place in a plurality    of venues.

-   3. The apparatus of embodiment 1, wherein the inferred label type is    one of: predicted trading algorithm type, predicted client type,    predicted tier, predicted state, predicted venue, predicted limit    price.

-   4. The apparatus of embodiment 1, wherein the specified buckets are    time buckets having a specified size.

-   5. The apparatus of embodiment 4, wherein the information leakage    alert is an allocation information leakage alert generated based on    determining that the predicted trading algorithm type corresponds to    the trading algorithm type associated with the trading algorithm    identifier.

-   6. The apparatus of embodiment 5, further, comprising:

the processor issues instructions from the trade tick monitoringcomponent, stored in the memory, to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier using a different trading        algorithm; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order specified by the modified order        placement allocation.

-   7. The apparatus of embodiment 1, wherein the order placement    datastructure further includes a limit price, and wherein the    specified buckets are price buckets.

-   8. The apparatus of embodiment 7, wherein the information leakage    alert is a limit price information leakage alert generated based on    determining that the predicted limit price is within a threshold of    the limit price.

-   9. The apparatus of embodiment 8, further, comprising:

the processor issues instructions from the trade tick monitoringcomponent, stored in the memory, to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier to use a different limit        price; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order having the different limit        price.

-   10. The apparatus of embodiment 1, further, comprising:

the processor issues instructions from the trade tick monitoringcomponent, stored in the memory, to:

-   -   compute, via at least one processor, a real-time liquidity model        for the security identifier using the determined inferred        labels;    -   assess, via at least one processor, counterparty landscape for        the first order using the real-time liquidity model; and    -   modify, via at least one processor, an internal state of the        trading algorithm associated with the trading algorithm        identifier based on the counterparty landscape.

-   11. The apparatus of embodiment 10, wherein the order placement    allocation for the security identifier is further determined based    on the modified internal state of the trading algorithm.

-   12. The apparatus of embodiment 10, further, comprising:

the processor issues instructions from the trade tick monitoringcomponent, stored in the memory, to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on the modified        internal state of the trading algorithm; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order specified by the modified order        placement allocation.

-   13. The apparatus of embodiment 10, wherein the real-time liquidity    model for the security identifier indicates at least one of:    percentages of orders that are executed in different markets,    percentages of orders that are executed using different trading    algorithms.

-   14. The apparatus of embodiment 1, wherein the machine learning    technique used to generate the real-time prediction logic is one of:    random forest, gradient boosting, decision tree, logistic    regression.

-   15. The apparatus of embodiment 14, further, comprising:

a machine learning training component;

wherein the processor issues instructions from the machine learningtraining component, stored in the memory, to:

-   -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical trade tick        data;    -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical quote data;    -   augment, via at least one processor, the historical trade tick        data with the historical quote data, wherein an as of join of        the historical quote data and the historical trade tick data is        performed;    -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical order execution        data;    -   determine, via at least one processor, venues for the historical        order execution data;    -   determine, via at least one processor, time buffers for the        historical order execution data, wherein each venue is        associated with a separate time buffer;    -   generate, via at least one processor, labeled trade tick data,        wherein an as of join of the historical order execution data and        the augmented historical trade tick data is performed;    -   select, via at least one processor, a subset of the labeled        trade tick data that avoids overfitting using sampling        stratified over a set of buckets; and    -   train, via at least one processor, the real-time prediction        logic using the machine learning technique and the selected        subset of the labeled trade tick data.

-   16. A processor-readable artificial intelligence-based information    leakage alert generating non-transient physical medium storing    processor-executable components, the components, comprising:

-   a component collection stored in the medium, including:

a trade tick monitoring component;

wherein the trade tick monitoring component, stored in the medium,includes processor-issuable instructions to:

-   -   obtain, via at least one processor, an order placement        datastructure, wherein the order placement datastructure        includes a security identifier and a trading algorithm        identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, an order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on a trading        algorithm associated with the trading algorithm identifier;    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a first order specified by the order placement        allocation to a server associated with a first venue specified        by the order placement allocation for the first order;    -   obtain, via at least one processor, a set of trade tick data        messages associated with the first venue, wherein the set of        trade tick data messages pertains to the security identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, a set of inferred labels        for each obtained trade tick data message using a real-time        prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;    -   select, via at least one processor, an inferred label type;    -   group, via at least one processor, the determined inferred        labels of the selected inferred label type for the set of trade        tick data messages into specified buckets;    -   determine, via at least one processor, that the grouped inferred        labels correspond to execution data generated by the first        order; and    -   generate, via at least one processor, an information leakage        alert for the selected inferred label type.

-   17. The medium of embodiment 16, wherein the order placement    allocation specifies a plurality of orders to place in a plurality    of venues.

-   18. The medium of embodiment 16, wherein the inferred label type is    one of: predicted trading algorithm type, predicted client type,    predicted tier, predicted state, predicted venue, predicted limit    price.

-   19. The medium of embodiment 16, wherein the specified buckets are    time buckets having a specified size.

-   20. The medium of embodiment 19, wherein the information leakage    alert is an allocation information leakage alert generated based on    determining that the predicted trading algorithm type corresponds to    the trading algorithm type associated with the trading algorithm    identifier.

-   21. The medium of embodiment 20, further, comprising:

the trade tick monitoring component, stored in the medium, includesprocessor-issuable instructions to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier using a different trading        algorithm; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order specified by the modified order        placement allocation.

-   22. The medium of embodiment 16, wherein the order placement    datastructure further includes a limit price, and wherein the    specified buckets are price buckets.

-   23. The medium of embodiment 22, wherein the information leakage    alert is a limit price information leakage alert generated based on    determining that the predicted limit price is within a threshold of    the limit price.

-   24. The medium of embodiment 23, further, comprising:

the trade tick monitoring component, stored in the medium, includesprocessor-issuable instructions to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier to use a different limit        price; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order having the different limit        price.

-   25. The medium of embodiment 16, further, comprising:

the trade tick monitoring component, stored in the medium, includesprocessor-issuable instructions to:

-   -   compute, via at least one processor, a real-time liquidity model        for the security identifier using the determined inferred        labels;    -   assess, via at least one processor, counterparty landscape for        the first order using the real-time liquidity model; and    -   modify, via at least one processor, an internal state of the        trading algorithm associated with the trading algorithm        identifier based on the counterparty landscape.

-   26. The medium of embodiment 25, wherein the order placement    allocation for the security identifier is further determined based    on the modified internal state of the trading algorithm.

-   27. The medium of embodiment 25, further, comprising:

the trade tick monitoring component, stored in the medium, includesprocessor-issuable instructions to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on the modified        internal state of the trading algorithm; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order specified by the modified order        placement allocation.

-   28. The medium of embodiment 25, wherein the real-time liquidity    model for the security identifier indicates at least one of:    percentages of orders that are executed in different markets,    percentages of orders that are executed using different trading    algorithms.

-   29. The medium of embodiment 16, wherein the machine learning    technique used to generate the real-time prediction logic is one of:    random forest, gradient boosting, decision tree, logistic    regression.

-   30. The medium of embodiment 29, further, comprising:

a machine learning training component;

wherein the machine learning training component, stored in the medium,includes processor-issuable instructions to:

-   -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical trade tick        data;    -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical quote data;    -   augment, via at least one processor, the historical trade tick        data with the historical quote data, wherein an as of join of        the historical quote data and the historical trade tick data is        performed;    -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical order execution        data;    -   determine, via at least one processor, venues for the historical        order execution data;    -   determine, via at least one processor, time buffers for the        historical order execution data, wherein each venue is        associated with a separate time buffer;    -   generate, via at least one processor, labeled trade tick data,        wherein an as of join of the historical order execution data and        the augmented historical trade tick data is performed;    -   select, via at least one processor, a subset of the labeled        trade tick data that avoids overfitting using sampling        stratified over a set of buckets; and    -   train, via at least one processor, the real-time prediction        logic using the machine learning technique and the selected        subset of the labeled trade tick data.

-   31. A processor-implemented artificial intelligence-based    information leakage alert generating system, comprising:

a trade tick monitoring component means, to:

-   -   obtain, via at least one processor, an order placement        datastructure, wherein the order placement datastructure        includes a security identifier and a trading algorithm        identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, an order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on a trading        algorithm associated with the trading algorithm identifier;    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a first order specified by the order placement        allocation to a server associated with a first venue specified        by the order placement allocation for the first order;    -   obtain, via at least one processor, a set of trade tick data        messages associated with the first venue, wherein the set of        trade tick data messages pertains to the security identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, a set of inferred labels        for each obtained trade tick data message using a real-time        prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;    -   select, via at least one processor, an inferred label type;    -   group, via at least one processor, the determined inferred        labels of the selected inferred label type for the set of trade        tick data messages into specified buckets;    -   determine, via at least one processor, that the grouped inferred        labels correspond to execution data generated by the first        order; and    -   generate, via at least one processor, an information leakage        alert for the selected inferred label type.

-   32. The system of embodiment 31, wherein the order placement    allocation specifies a plurality of orders to place in a plurality    of venues.

-   33. The system of embodiment 31, wherein the inferred label type is    one of: predicted trading algorithm type, predicted client type,    predicted tier, predicted state, predicted venue, predicted limit    price.

-   34. The system of embodiment 31, wherein the specified buckets are    time buckets having a specified size.

-   35. The system of embodiment 34, wherein the information leakage    alert is an allocation information leakage alert generated based on    determining that the predicted trading algorithm type corresponds to    the trading algorithm type associated with the trading algorithm    identifier.

-   36. The system of embodiment 35, further, comprising:

the trade tick monitoring component means, to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier using a different trading        algorithm; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order specified by the modified order        placement allocation.

-   37. The system of embodiment 31, wherein the order placement    datastructure further includes a limit price, and wherein the    specified buckets are price buckets.

-   38. The system of embodiment 37, wherein the information leakage    alert is a limit price information leakage alert generated based on    determining that the predicted limit price is within a threshold of    the limit price.

-   39. The system of embodiment 38, further, comprising:

the trade tick monitoring component means, to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier to use a different limit        price; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order having the different limit        price.

-   40. The system of embodiment 31, further, comprising:

the trade tick monitoring component means, to:

-   -   compute, via at least one processor, a real-time liquidity model        for the security identifier using the determined inferred        labels;    -   assess, via at least one processor, counterparty landscape for        the first order using the real-time liquidity model; and    -   modify, via at least one processor, an internal state of the        trading algorithm associated with the trading algorithm        identifier based on the counterparty landscape.

-   41. The system of embodiment 40, wherein the order placement    allocation for the security identifier is further determined based    on the modified internal state of the trading algorithm.

-   42. The system of embodiment 40, further, comprising:

the trade tick monitoring component means, to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on the modified        internal state of the trading algorithm; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order specified by the modified order        placement allocation.

-   43. The system of embodiment 40, wherein the real-time liquidity    model for the security identifier indicates at least one of:    percentages of orders that are executed in different markets,    percentages of orders that are executed using different trading    algorithms.

-   44. The system of embodiment 31, wherein the machine learning    technique used to generate the real-time prediction logic is one of:    random forest, gradient boosting, decision tree, logistic    regression.

-   45. The system of embodiment 44, further, comprising:

a machine learning training component means, to:

-   -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical trade tick        data;    -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical quote data;    -   augment, via at least one processor, the historical trade tick        data with the historical quote data, wherein an as of join of        the historical quote data and the historical trade tick data is        performed;    -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical order execution        data;    -   determine, via at least one processor, venues for the historical        order execution data;    -   determine, via at least one processor, time buffers for the        historical order execution data, wherein each venue is        associated with a separate time buffer;    -   generate, via at least one processor, labeled trade tick data,        wherein an as of join of the historical order execution data and        the augmented historical trade tick data is performed;    -   select, via at least one processor, a subset of the labeled        trade tick data that avoids overfitting using sampling        stratified over a set of buckets; and    -   train, via at least one processor, the real-time prediction        logic using the machine learning technique and the selected        subset of the labeled trade tick data.

-   46. A processor-implemented artificial intelligence-based    information leakage alert generating method, comprising:

executing processor-implemented trade tick monitoring componentinstructions to:

-   -   obtain, via at least one processor, an order placement        datastructure, wherein the order placement datastructure        includes a security identifier and a trading algorithm        identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, an order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on a trading        algorithm associated with the trading algorithm identifier;    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a first order specified by the order placement        allocation to a server associated with a first venue specified        by the order placement allocation for the first order;    -   obtain, via at least one processor, a set of trade tick data        messages associated with the first venue, wherein the set of        trade tick data messages pertains to the security identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, a set of inferred labels        for each obtained trade tick data message using a real-time        prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;    -   select, via at least one processor, an inferred label type;    -   group, via at least one processor, the determined inferred        labels of the selected inferred label type for the set of trade        tick data messages into specified buckets;    -   determine, via at least one processor, that the grouped inferred        labels correspond to execution data generated by the first        order; and    -   generate, via at least one processor, an information leakage        alert for the selected inferred label type.

-   47. The method of embodiment 46, wherein the order placement    allocation specifies a plurality of orders to place in a plurality    of venues.

-   48. The method of embodiment 46, wherein the inferred label type is    one of: predicted trading algorithm type, predicted client type,    predicted tier, predicted state, predicted venue, predicted limit    price.

-   49. The method of embodiment 46, wherein the specified buckets are    time buckets having a specified size.

-   50. The method of embodiment 49, wherein the information leakage    alert is an allocation information leakage alert generated based on    determining that the predicted trading algorithm type corresponds to    the trading algorithm type associated with the trading algorithm    identifier.

-   51. The method of embodiment 50, further, comprising:

executing processor-implemented trade tick monitoring componentinstructions to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier using a different trading        algorithm; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order specified by the modified order        placement allocation.

-   52. The method of embodiment 46, wherein the order placement    datastructure further includes a limit price, and wherein the    specified buckets are price buckets.

-   53. The method of embodiment 52, wherein the information leakage    alert is a limit price information leakage alert generated based on    determining that the predicted limit price is within a threshold of    the limit price.

-   54. The method of embodiment 53, further, comprising:

executing processor-implemented trade tick monitoring componentinstructions to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier to use a different limit        price; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order having the different limit        price.

-   55. The method of embodiment 46, further, comprising:

executing processor-implemented trade tick monitoring componentinstructions to:

-   -   compute, via at least one processor, a real-time liquidity model        for the security identifier using the determined inferred        labels;    -   assess, via at least one processor, counterparty landscape for        the first order using the real-time liquidity model; and    -   modify, via at least one processor, an internal state of the        trading algorithm associated with the trading algorithm        identifier based on the counterparty landscape.

-   56. The method of embodiment 55, wherein the order placement    allocation for the security identifier is further determined based    on the modified internal state of the trading algorithm.

-   57. The method of embodiment 55, further, comprising:

executing processor-implemented trade tick monitoring componentinstructions to:

-   -   modify, via at least one processor, the order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on the modified        internal state of the trading algorithm; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a second order specified by the modified order        placement allocation.

-   58. The method of embodiment 55, wherein the real-time liquidity    model for the security identifier indicates at least one of:    percentages of orders that are executed in different markets,    percentages of orders that are executed using different trading    algorithms.

-   59. The method of embodiment 46, wherein the machine learning    technique used to generate the real-time prediction logic is one of:    random forest, gradient boosting, decision tree, logistic    regression.

-   60. The method of embodiment 59, further, comprising:

executing processor-implemented machine learning training componentinstructions to:

-   -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical trade tick        data;    -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical quote data;    -   augment, via at least one processor, the historical trade tick        data with the historical quote data, wherein an as of join of        the historical quote data and the historical trade tick data is        performed;    -   retrieve, via at least one processor, historical order execution        data;    -   determine, via at least one processor, venues for the historical        order execution data;    -   determine, via at least one processor, time buffers for the        historical order execution data, wherein each venue is        associated with a separate time buffer;    -   generate, via at least one processor, labeled trade tick data,        wherein an as of join of the historical order execution data and        the augmented historical trade tick data is performed;    -   select, via at least one processor, a subset of the labeled        trade tick data that avoids overfitting using sampling        stratified over a set of buckets; and    -   train, via at least one processor, the real-time prediction        logic using the machine learning technique and the selected        subset of the labeled trade tick data.

-   119. An artificial intelligence-based information leakage order    generating apparatus, comprising:

-   a memory;

-   a component collection in the memory, including:

a trade tick monitoring component;

-   a processor disposed in communication with the memory, and    configured to issue a plurality of processing instructions from the    component collection stored in the memory,

wherein the processor issues instructions from the trade tick monitoringcomponent, stored in the memory, to:

-   -   obtain, via at least one processor, a set of trade tick data        messages, wherein the set of trade tick data messages pertains        to a security identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, a set of inferred labels        for each obtained trade tick data message using a real-time        prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;    -   compute, via at least one processor, a real-time liquidity model        for the security identifier using the determined inferred        labels;    -   assess, via at least one processor, counterparty landscape for        the security identifier using the real-time liquidity model;    -   detect, via at least one processor, information leakage        associated with the security identifier based on the assessment        of the counterparty landscape;    -   determine, via at least one processor, an order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on the detected        information leakage; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a first order specified by the order placement        allocation to a server associated with a first venue specified        by the order placement allocation for the first order.

-   120. A processor-readable artificial intelligence-based information    leakage order generating non-transient physical medium storing    processor-executable components, the components, comprising:

-   a component collection stored in the medium, including:

a trade tick monitoring component;

wherein the trade tick monitoring component, stored in the medium,includes processor-issuable instructions to:

-   -   obtain, via at least one processor, a set of trade tick data        messages, wherein the set of trade tick data messages pertains        to a security identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, a set of inferred labels        for each obtained trade tick data message using a real-time        prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;    -   compute, via at least one processor, a real-time liquidity model        for the security identifier using the determined inferred        labels;    -   assess, via at least one processor, counterparty landscape for        the security identifier using the real-time liquidity model;    -   detect, via at least one processor, information leakage        associated with the security identifier based on the assessment        of the counterparty landscape;    -   determine, via at least one processor, an order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on the detected        information leakage; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a first order specified by the order placement        allocation to a server associated with a first venue specified        by the order placement allocation for the first order.

-   121. A processor-implemented artificial intelligence-based    information leakage order generating system, comprising:

a trade tick monitoring component means, to:

-   -   obtain, via at least one processor, a set of trade tick data        messages, wherein the set of trade tick data messages pertains        to a security identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, a set of inferred labels        for each obtained trade tick data message using a real-time        prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;    -   compute, via at least one processor, a real-time liquidity model        for the security identifier using the determined inferred        labels;    -   assess, via at least one processor, counterparty landscape for        the security identifier using the real-time liquidity model;    -   detect, via at least one processor, information leakage        associated with the security identifier based on the assessment        of the counterparty landscape;    -   determine, via at least one processor, an order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on the detected        information leakage; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a first order specified by the order placement        allocation to a server associated with a first venue specified        by the order placement allocation for the first order.

-   122. A processor-implemented artificial intelligence-based    information leakage order generating method, comprising:

executing processor-implemented trade tick monitoring componentinstructions to:

-   -   obtain, via at least one processor, a set of trade tick data        messages, wherein the set of trade tick data messages pertains        to a security identifier;    -   determine, via at least one processor, a set of inferred labels        for each obtained trade tick data message using a real-time        prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;    -   compute, via at least one processor, a real-time liquidity model        for the security identifier using the determined inferred        labels;    -   assess, via at least one processor, counterparty landscape for        the security identifier using the real-time liquidity model;    -   detect, via at least one processor, information leakage        associated with the security identifier based on the assessment        of the counterparty landscape;    -   determine, via at least one processor, an order placement        allocation for the security identifier based on the detected        information leakage; and    -   send, via at least one processor, an order placement request        datastructure for a first order specified by the order placement        allocation to a server associated with a first venue specified        by the order placement allocation for the first order.

In order to address various issues and advance the art, the entirety ofthis application for AI-Based Real-Time Prediction Engine Apparatuses,Methods and Systems (including the Cover Page, Title, Headings, Field,Background, Summary, Brief Description of the Drawings, DetailedDescription, Claims, Abstract, Figures, Appendices, and otherwise)shows, by way of illustration, various embodiments in which the claimedinnovations may be practiced. The advantages and features of theapplication are of a representative sample of embodiments only, and arenot exhaustive and/or exclusive. They are presented only to assist inunderstanding and teach the claimed principles. It should be understoodthat they are not representative of all claimed innovations. As such,certain aspects of the disclosure have not been discussed herein. Thatalternate embodiments may not have been presented for a specific portionof the innovations or that further undescribed alternate embodiments maybe available for a portion is not to be considered a disclaimer of thosealternate embodiments. It will be appreciated that many of thoseundescribed embodiments incorporate the same principles of theinnovations and others are equivalent. Thus, it is to be understood thatother embodiments may be utilized and functional, logical, operational,organizational, structural and/or topological modifications may be madewithout departing from the scope and/or spirit of the disclosure. Assuch, all examples and/or embodiments are deemed to be non-limitingthroughout this disclosure. Further and to the extent any financialand/or investment examples are included, such examples are forillustrative purpose(s) only, and are not, nor should they beinterpreted, as investment advice. Also, no inference should be drawnregarding those embodiments discussed herein relative to those notdiscussed herein other than it is as such for purposes of reducing spaceand repetition. For instance, it is to be understood that the logicaland/or topological structure of any combination of any programcomponents (a component collection), other components, data flow order,logic flow order, and/or any present feature sets as described in thefigures and/or throughout are not limited to a fixed operating orderand/or arrangement, but rather, any disclosed order is exemplary and allequivalents, regardless of order, are contemplated by the disclosure.Similarly, descriptions of embodiments disclosed throughout thisdisclosure, any reference to direction or orientation is merely intendedfor convenience of description and is not intended in any way to limitthe scope of described embodiments. Relative terms such as “lower”,“upper”, “horizontal”, “vertical”, “above”, “below”, “up”, “down”, “top”and “bottom” as well as derivative thereof (e.g., “horizontally”,“downwardly”, “upwardly”, etc.) should not be construed to limitembodiments, and instead, again, are offered for convenience ofdescription of orientation. These relative descriptors are forconvenience of description only and do not require that any embodimentsbe constructed or operated in a particular orientation unless explicitlyindicated as such. Terms such as “attached”, “affixed”, “connected”,“coupled”, “interconnected”, and similar may refer to a relationshipwherein structures are secured or attached to one another eitherdirectly or indirectly through intervening structures, as well as bothmovable or rigid attachments or relationships, unless expresslydescribed otherwise. Furthermore, it is to be understood that suchfeatures are not limited to serial execution, but rather, any number ofthreads, processes, services, servers, and/or the like that may executeasynchronously, concurrently, in parallel, simultaneously,synchronously, and/or the like are contemplated by the disclosure. Assuch, some of these features may be mutually contradictory, in that theycannot be simultaneously present in a single embodiment. Similarly, somefeatures are applicable to one aspect of the innovations, andinapplicable to others. In addition, the disclosure includes otherinnovations not presently claimed. Applicant reserves all rights inthose presently unclaimed innovations including the right to claim suchinnovations, file additional applications, continuations, continuationsin part, divisions, and/or the like thereof. As such, it should beunderstood that advantages, embodiments, examples, functional, features,logical, operational, organizational, structural, topological, and/orother aspects of the disclosure are not to be considered limitations onthe disclosure as defined by the claims or limitations on equivalents tothe claims. It is to be understood that, depending on the particularneeds and/or characteristics of a AIRTPE individual and/or enterpriseuser, database configuration and/or relational model, data type, datatransmission and/or network framework, syntax structure, and/or thelike, various embodiments of the AIRTPE, may be implemented that allow agreat deal of flexibility and customization. For example, aspects of theAIRTPE may be adapted for derivatives. While various embodiments anddiscussions of the AIRTPE have included machine learning, however, it isto be understood that the embodiments described herein may be readilyconfigured and/or customized for a wide variety of other applicationsand/or implementations.

What is claimed is:
 1. An artificial intelligence-based informationleakage alert generating apparatus, comprising: a memory; a componentcollection in the memory, including: a trade tick monitoring component;a processor disposed in communication with the memory, and configured toissue a plurality of processing instructions from the componentcollection stored in the memory, wherein the processor issuesinstructions from the trade tick monitoring component, stored in thememory, to: obtain, via at least one processor, an order placementdatastructure, wherein the order placement datastructure includes asecurity identifier and a trading algorithm identifier; determine, viaat least one processor, an order placement allocation for the securityidentifier based on a trading algorithm associated with the tradingalgorithm identifier; send, via at least one processor, an orderplacement request datastructure for a first order specified by the orderplacement allocation to a server associated with a first venue specifiedby the order placement allocation for the first order wherein the orderplacement request datastructure includes a limit price; obtain, via atleast one processor, a set of trade tick data messages associated withthe first venue, wherein the set of trade tick data messages pertains tothe security identifier; determine, via at least one processor, a set ofinferred labels for each obtained trade tick data message using areal-time prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;select, via at least one processor, an inferred label type; group, viaat least one processor, the determined inferred labels of the selectedinferred label type for the set of trade tick data messages intospecified buckets, wherein the specified buckets are price buckets;determine, via at least one processor, that the grouped inferred labelscorrespond to execution data generated by the first order; and generate,via at least one processor, an information leakage alert for theselected inferred label type, wherein the information leakage alert is alimit price information leakage alert generated based on determiningthat the predicted limit price is within a threshold of the limit price.2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the order placement allocationspecifies a plurality of orders to place in a plurality of venues. 3.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the inferred label type is one of:predicted trading algorithm type, predicted client type, predicted tier,predicted state, predicted venue, predicted limit price.
 4. Theapparatus of claim 1, wherein the specified buckets are time bucketshaving a specified size.
 5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein theinformation leakage alert is an allocation information leakage alertgenerated based on determining that the predicted trading algorithm typecorresponds to the trading algorithm type associated with the tradingalgorithm identifier.
 6. The apparatus of claim 5, further, comprising:the processor issues instructions from the trade tick monitoringcomponent, stored in the memory, to: modify, via at least one processor,the order placement allocation for the security identifier using adifferent trading algorithm; and send, via at least one processor, anorder placement request datastructure for a second order specified bythe modified order placement allocation.
 7. The apparatus of claim 1,wherein the order placement datastructure further includes a limitprice, and wherein the specified buckets are price buckets.
 8. Theapparatus of claim 7, wherein the information leakage alert is a limitprice information leakage alert generated based on determining that thepredicted limit price is within a threshold of the limit price.
 9. Theapparatus of claim 8, further, comprising: the processor issuesinstructions from the trade tick monitoring component, stored in thememory, to: modify, via at least one processor, the order placementallocation for the security identifier to use a different limit price;and send, via at least one processor, an order placement requestdatastructure for a second order having the different limit price. 10.The apparatus of claim 1, further, comprising: the processor issuesinstructions from the trade tick monitoring component, stored in thememory, to: compute, via at least one processor, a real-time liquiditymodel for the security identifier using the determined inferred labels;assess, via at least one processor, counterparty landscape for the firstorder using the real-time liquidity model; and modify, via at least oneprocessor, an internal state of the trading algorithm associated withthe trading algorithm identifier based on the counterparty landscape.11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the order placement allocationfor the security identifier is further determined based on the modifiedinternal state of the trading algorithm.
 12. The apparatus of claim 10,further, comprising: the processor issues instructions from the tradetick monitoring component, stored in the memory, to: modify, via atleast one processor, the order placement allocation for the securityidentifier based on the modified internal state of the tradingalgorithm; and send, via at least one processor, an order placementrequest datastructure for a second order specified by the modified orderplacement allocation.
 13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein thereal-time liquidity model for the security identifier indicates at leastone of: percentages of orders that are executed in different markets,percentages of orders that are executed using different tradingalgorithms.
 14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the machine learningtechnique used to generate the real-time prediction logic is one of:random forest, gradient boosting, decision tree, logistic regression.15. The apparatus of claim 14, further, comprising: a machine learningtraining component; wherein the processor issues instructions from themachine learning training component, stored in the memory, to: retrieve,via at least one processor, historical trade tick data; retrieve, via atleast one processor, historical quote data; augment, via at least oneprocessor, the historical trade tick data with the historical quotedata, wherein an as of join of the historical quote data and thehistorical trade tick data is performed; retrieve, via at least oneprocessor, historical order execution data; determine, via at least oneprocessor, venues for the historical order execution data; determine,via at least one processor, time buffers for the historical orderexecution data, wherein each venue is associated with a separate timebuffer; generate, via at least one processor, labeled trade tick data,wherein an as of join of the historical order execution data and theaugmented historical trade tick data is performed; select, via at leastone processor, a subset of the labeled trade tick data that avoidsoverfitting using sampling stratified over a set of buckets; and train,via at least one processor, the real-time prediction logic using themachine learning technique and the selected subset of the labeled tradetick data.
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A processor-readable artificial intelligence-basedinformation leakage alert generating non-transient physical mediumstoring processor-executable components, the components, comprising: acomponent collection stored in the medium, including: a trade tickmonitoring component; wherein the trade tick monitoring component,stored in the medium, includes processor-issuable instructions to:obtain, via at least one processor, an order placement datastructure,wherein the order placement datastructure includes a security identifierand a trading algorithm identifier; determine, via at least oneprocessor, an order placement allocation for the security identifierbased on a trading algorithm associated with the trading algorithmidentifier; send, via at least one processor, an order placement requestdatastructure for a first order specified by the order placementallocation to a server associated with a first venue specified by theorder placement allocation for the first order, wherein the orderplacement request datastructure includes a limit price; obtain, via atleast one processor, a set of trade tick data messages associated withthe first venue, wherein the set of trade tick data messages pertains tothe security identifier; determine, via at least one processor, a set ofinferred labels for each obtained trade tick data message using areal-time prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;select, via at least one processor, an inferred label type; group, viaat least one processor, the determined inferred labels of the selectedinferred label type for the set of trade tick data messages intospecified buckets, wherein the specified buckets are price buckets;determine, via at least one processor, that the grouped inferred labelscorrespond to execution data generated by the first order; and generate,via at least one processor, an information leakage alert for theselected inferred label type, wherein the information leakage alert is alimit price information leakage alert generated based on determiningthat the predicted limit price is within a threshold of the limit price.17. A processor-implemented artificial intelligence-based informationleakage alert generating system, comprising: a trade tick monitoringcomponent means, to: obtain, via at least one processor, an orderplacement datastructure, wherein the order placement datastructureincludes a security identifier and a trading algorithm identifier;determine, via at least one processor, an order placement allocation forthe security identifier based on a trading algorithm associated with thetrading algorithm identifier; send, via at least one processor, an orderplacement request datastructure for a first order specified by the orderplacement allocation to a server associated with a first venue specifiedby the order placement allocation for the first order, wherein the orderplacement request datastructure includes a limit price; obtain, via atleast one processor, a set of trade tick data messages associated withthe first venue, wherein the set of trade tick data messages pertains tothe security identifier; determine, via at least one processor, a set ofinferred labels for each obtained trade tick data message using areal-time prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;select, via at least one processor, an inferred label type; group, viaat least one processor, the determined inferred labels of the selectedinferred label type for the set of trade tick data messages intospecified buckets, wherein the specified buckets are price buckets;determine, via at least one processor, that the grouped inferred labelscorrespond to execution data generated by the first order; and generate,via at least one processor, an information leakage alert for theselected inferred label type, wherein the information leakage alert is alimit price information leakage alert generated based on determiningthat the predicted limit price is within a threshold of the limit price.18. A processor-implemented artificial intelligence-based informationleakage alert generating method, comprising: executingprocessor-implemented trade tick monitoring component instructions to:obtain, via at least one processor, an order placement datastructure,wherein the order placement datastructure includes a security identifierand a trading algorithm identifier; determine, via at least oneprocessor, an order placement allocation for the security identifierbased on a trading algorithm associated with the trading algorithmidentifier; send, via at least one processor, an order placement requestdatastructure for a first order specified by the order placementallocation to a server associated with a first venue specified by theorder placement allocation for the first order, wherein the orderplacement request datastructure includes a limit price; obtain, via atleast one processor, a set of trade tick data messages associated withthe first venue, wherein the set of trade tick data messages pertains tothe security identifier; determine, via at least one processor, a set ofinferred labels for each obtained trade tick data message using areal-time prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique;select, via at least one processor, an inferred label type; group, viaat least one processor, the determined inferred labels of the selectedinferred label type for the set of trade tick data messages intospecified buckets, wherein the specified buckets are price buckets;determine, via at least one processor, that the grouped inferred labelscorrespond to execution data generated by the first order; and generate,via at least one processor, an information leakage alert for theselected inferred label type, wherein the information leakage alert is alimit price information leakage alert generated based on determiningthat the predicted limit price is within a threshold of the limit price.19. An artificial intelligence-based information leakage ordergenerating apparatus, comprising: a memory; a component collection inthe memory, including: a trade tick monitoring component; a processordisposed in communication with the memory, and configured to issue aplurality of processing instructions from the component collectionstored in the memory, wherein the processor issues instructions from thetrade tick monitoring component, stored in the memory, to: obtain, viaat least one processor, a set of trade tick data messages, wherein theset of trade tick data messages pertains to a security identifier;determine, via at least one processor, a set of inferred labels for eachobtained trade tick data message using a real-time prediction logicgenerated using a machine learning technique, and group the set ofinferred labels into price buckets; compute, via at least one processor,a real-time liquidity model for the security identifier using thedetermined inferred labels; assess, via at least one processor,counterparty landscape for the security identifier using the real-timeliquidity model; detect, via at least one processor, information leakageassociated with the security identifier based on the assessment of thecounterparty landscape, wherein the information leakage alert is a limitprice information leakage alert generated based on determining that apredicted limit price is within a threshold of the limit price;determine, via at least one processor, an order placement allocation forthe security identifier based on the detected information leakage; andsend, via at least one processor, an order placement requestdatastructure for a first order specified by the order placementallocation to a server associated with a first venue specified by theorder placement allocation for the first order, wherein the orderplacement request datastructure includes a limit price.
 20. Aprocessor-readable artificial intelligence-based information leakageorder generating non-transient physical medium storingprocessor-executable components, the components, comprising: a componentcollection stored in the medium, including: a trade tick monitoringcomponent; wherein the trade tick monitoring component, stored in themedium, includes processor-issuable instructions to: obtain, via atleast one processor, a set of trade tick data messages, wherein the setof trade tick data messages pertains to a security identifier;determine, via at least one processor, a set of inferred labels for eachobtained trade tick data message using a real-time prediction logicgenerated using a machine learning technique, and group the set ofinferred labels into price buckets; compute, via at least one processor,a real-time liquidity model for the security identifier using thedetermined inferred labels; assess, via at least one processor,counterparty landscape for the security identifier using the real-timeliquidity model; detect, via at least one processor, information leakageassociated with the security identifier based on the assessment of thecounterparty landscape, wherein the information leakage alert is a limitprice information leakage alert generated based on determining that apredicted limit price is within a threshold of the limit price;determine, via at least one processor, an order placement allocation forthe security identifier based on the detected information leakage; andsend, via at least one processor, an order placement requestdatastructure for a first order specified by the order placementallocation to a server associated with a first venue specified by theorder placement allocation for the first order, wherein the orderplacement request datastructure includes a limit price.
 21. Aprocessor-implemented artificial intelligence-based information leakageorder generating system, comprising: a trade tick monitoring componentmeans, to: obtain, via at least one processor, a set of trade tick datamessages, wherein the set of trade tick data messages pertains to asecurity identifier; determine, via at least one processor, a set ofinferred labels for each obtained trade tick data message using areal-time prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique,and group the set of inferred labels into price buckets; compute, via atleast one processor, a real-time liquidity model for the securityidentifier using the determined inferred labels; assess, via at leastone processor, counterparty landscape for the security identifier usingthe real-time liquidity model; detect, via at least one processor,information leakage associated with the security identifier based on theassessment of the counterparty landscape, wherein the informationleakage alert is a limit price information leakage alert generated basedon determining that a predicted limit price is within a threshold of thelimit price; determine, via at least one processor, an order placementallocation for the security identifier based on the detected informationleakage; and send, via at least one processor, an order placementrequest datastructure for a first order specified by the order placementallocation to a server associated with a first venue specified by theorder placement allocation for the first order, wherein the orderplacement request datastructure includes a limit price.
 22. Aprocessor-implemented artificial intelligence-based information leakageorder generating method, comprising: executing processor-implementedtrade tick monitoring component instructions to: obtain, via at leastone processor, a set of trade tick data messages, wherein the set oftrade tick data messages pertains to a security identifier; determine,via at least one processor, a set of inferred labels for each obtainedtrade tick data message using a real-time prediction logic generatedusing a machine learning technique, and group the set of inferred labelsinto price buckets; compute, via at least one processor, a real-timeliquidity model for the security identifier using the determinedinferred labels; assess, via at least one processor, counterpartylandscape for the security identifier using the real-time liquiditymodel; detect, via at least one processor, information leakageassociated with the security identifier based on the assessment of thecounterparty landscape, wherein the information leakage alert is a limitprice information leakage alert generated based on determining that apredicted limit price is within a threshold of the limit price;determine, via at least one processor, an order placement allocation forthe security identifier based on the detected information leakage; andsend, via at least one processor, an order placement requestdatastructure for a first order specified by the order placementallocation to a server associated with a first venue specified by theorder placement allocation for the first order, wherein the orderplacement request datastructure includes a limit price.